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   ill-natured

   /ɪlˈneɪtʃəd/

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   • 1. bad-tempered or mean-spirited.

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   • 1. ill-naturedly adverb

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   What does ill-natured mean?

   • We meet his two ill-natured sisters who constantly criticize and fight with each other. What is the pronunciation of ill-natured? ILL-NATURED definition: 1. unpleasant, unkind, or unfriendly: 2. unpleasant, unkind, or unfriendly: . Learn more.

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   What does ill natured retort mean?

   • 1. Having a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition. 2. Spiteful; nasty: an ill-natured retort. ill′-na′tured·ness n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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   Why did the ill-natured people say he married?

   • Ill-natured people said that he married in order to have an excuse to get a holiday in which to draft his measure. Thank you, I hope you will come, and you must excuse poor Mary; she is not so ill-natured as she seems. Your return as one of the Parliamentary forces will now put an end to all ill-natured remarks.

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   Ill-natured means unpleasant, unkind, or unfriendly. Learn how to use this adjective with sentences and synonyms from the Cambridge Dictionary.

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     ill-natured definicja: 1. unpleasant, unkind, or unfriendly:...

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     ILL-NATURED meaning: 1. unpleasant, unkind, or unfriendly:...

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   Ill-natured means having a bad disposition, being cross or surly. Learn more about its synonyms, examples, word history and usage from the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

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   Ill-natured means unpleasant, unkind, or unfriendly. Learn how to use this adjective with synonyms, antonyms, and related words and phrases.

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   Ill-natured means naturally unpleasant and mean, or having or showing an unkindly disposition. Learn the synonyms, antonyms, word origin, and usage of this adjective with examples from Collins English Dictionary.

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   Ill-natured definition: having or showing an unkindly or unpleasant disposition.. See examples of ILL-NATURED used in a sentence.

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   ill-natured: 1 adj having an irritable and unpleasant disposition Synonyms: atrabilious , bilious , dyspeptic , liverish irritable as if suffering from indigestion bristly , prickly , splenetic , waspish very irritable cantankerous , crotchety , ornery having a difficult and contrary disposition choleric , hot-tempered , hotheaded , irascible ...

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   Ill-natured means having a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition, or being spiteful or nasty. Find the origin, usage, and translations of this adjective in English and other languages.