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Ill humour

noun
1.
An angry and disagreeable mood.  Synonyms: distemper, ill humor.






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"Ill humour" Quotes from Famous Books



... be reassured. 'Mrs. Tunbridge! Lord, the perils that beset the feet of man!' He got up with a half-comic ill humour. ...
— The Convert • Elizabeth Robins

... a forgiving family, and when they all met at tea-time nobody seemed to remember Gwen's ill humour. The evening was a busy one, for there were holly and ivy to be put up in the Parsonage now the church was finished, and the usual mirth over a bough of mistletoe which old Mr. Hodson, who owned the big farm by the mill, always cut off every year from an apple tree ...
— The Youngest Girl in the Fifth - A School Story • Angela Brazil

... far as I am concerned, you do not exist." Old General Rochambeau and old Rear-Admiral de Wailly-Duchemin, in worn but carefully-brushed regimentals, patrolled the far end of the room arm-in-arm. The Admiral seemed in an ill humour; and this was nothing new, he grumbled at everything. But the General's demeanour, as he trotted up and down beside his friend (doubtless doing his best to pacify him), betrayed an unwonted agitation. ...
— The Westcotes • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... Locke. This innovation was strenuously opposed; and the discontent it produced was increased by a rumour, which was not the less mischievous for being untrue, that the proprietors designed to dismember the province. There was also another cause which increased the ill humour pervading that small society. The proprietors attempted to stop the trade carried on in the vessels of New England, and the attempt produced the constant effect of such measures—much ill temper both on the part of those who carried on the traffic, and ...
— The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 (of 5) • John Marshall



Words linked to "Ill humour" :   good humor, choler, peevishness, fussiness, petulance, humor, temper, irritability, fretfulness, crossness, mood, moodiness, distemper, humour



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