ill-natured

  • 11ill-natured — adjective having an irritable and unpleasant disposition • Ant: ↑good natured • Similar to: ↑atrabilious, ↑bilious, ↑dyspeptic, ↑liverish, ↑bristly, ↑prickly, ↑ …

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  • 12ill-natured — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. cross, disagreeable, surly, spiteful; see irritable , sullen . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. moody, ill tempered, contentious, ill humored, grouchy, irritable, crabby, touchy, sour, surly, waspish, cantankerous. ANT …

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  • 13ill-natured — Synonyms and related words: bad tempered, bitter, crabbed, cranky, cross, crusty, dour, evil disposed, evil tempered, gloomy, ill affected, ill conditioned, ill disposed, ill humored, ill intentioned, ill tempered, malevolent, morose, petulant,… …

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  • 14ill-natured — adj 1. unkindly, unamiable, unfriendly, unaccommodating; quarrelsome, contentious, fractious, captious; hostile, antagonistic, inimical, ill willed; spiteful, malicious, malevolent, hateful. 2. ill tempered, ill humored, cross, irascible,… …

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  • 15ill-natured — /ˈɪl neɪtʃəd / (say il naychuhd) adjective 1. having or showing an unkindly or unpleasant disposition. 2. cross; peevish. –ill naturedly, adverb –ill naturedness, noun …

  • 16ill-natured — adjective Date: 1605 1. malevolent, spiteful 2. having a bad disposition ; cross, surly • ill naturedly adverb …

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  • 17ill-natured — adjective bad tempered and churlish. Derivatives ill naturedly adverb …

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  • 18ill-natured — a. 1. Malevolent, unkind, disobliging, unfriendly, unamiable, hateful. 2. Morose, sullen, sulky, cross, churlish, crabbed, sour, perverse, wayward, crusty, petulant, cross grained, ill tempered, acrimonious, bitter …

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  • 19ill-natured —   Wawa u (fig.). See ill feeling …

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  • 20ill-natured — adjective bad tempered, irritable or malevolent …

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