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Ill-humoured

adjective

Brusque and surly and forbidding. Synonyms: crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored. "A crusty old man" , "His curmudgeonly temper" , "Gruff manner" , "A gruff reply"

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"Ill-humoured" Quotes from Famous Books

... back two hours later to his bed-room with his boots wet with dew, dishevelled and ill-humoured. He found Arkady at the writing-table with a book in his hands, his coat buttoned ...

— Fathers and Children • Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

... as Lance had been with the choristers, he was not dealing as well with his brother, perhaps partly because he was more consciously trying to influence him; and likewise because the state of his health and his prospects so far affected his manner, that though never ill-humoured, it had lost some of the easy careless sweetness of high spirits, and assumed an ironical tone, exasperating to a child who could not brook ridicule. He was ashamed and dismayed at the place where Bernard was leading him, so low and disreputable ...

— The Pillars of the House, V1 • Charlotte M. Yonge

Words linked to "Ill-humoured" : curmudgeonly, crusty, ill-natured