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- noun Alternative spelling of
ill humor .
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Examples
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Let us make real effort to be cheerful and joyful; ill-humor and bad temper must never mar our conduct.
Septuagesima John 2009
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Let us make real effort to be cheerful and joyful; ill-humor and bad temper must never mar our conduct.
From the Mail John 2009
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But the mood of devilry that seemed to have taken possession of him over the course of the morning and in the face of her ill-humor was really quite irresistible now, almost as irresistible as the lure of putting his hands on her again had been.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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But the mood of devilry that seemed to have taken possession of him over the course of the morning and in the face of her ill-humor was really quite irresistible now, almost as irresistible as the lure of putting his hands on her again had been.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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The old boy has been very happy; amusing himself with cutting paper, looking at pictures, riding on his horse, and all the time prating to me — without a moment of ill-humor (which, indeed, is hardly among his possibilities) or ill spirits.
A Different Stripe: 2007
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The old boy has been very happy; amusing himself with cutting paper, looking at pictures, riding on his horse, and all the time prating to me — without a moment of ill-humor (which, indeed, is hardly among his possibilities) or ill spirits.
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Yet a growing population doesn't sufficiently account for the spread of nannying by strangers -- what Christopher Hitchens calls "all of this re-infantilizing" -- and concomitant ill-humor.
Silent Rage 2008
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Yet a growing population doesn't sufficiently account for the spread of nannying by strangers and concomitant ill-humor.
Silent Rage 2008
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Yet a growing population doesn't sufficiently account for the spread of nannying by strangers -- what Christopher Hitchens calls "all of this re-infantilizing" -- and concomitant ill-humor.
Silent Rage 2008
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So humiliated were our enemies by the guffaws of the mob, that in gloomy ill-humor they beat a retreat to plot revenge.
Satyricon 2007
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