How To Use ill-natured In A Sentence
- The ill-natured Marx, the venomous Lenin, the murderous Stalin all had a deep-seated loathing of all those who disagreed with them.
- His reserve might by the ill-natured have been termed dissimulation, inasmuch as when asked by the ladies of the embassy what had become of the young person who had amused them that day so cleverly he gave it out that her whereabouts was uncertain and her destiny probably obscure; he let it be supposed in a word that his benevolence had scarcely survived an accidental, a charitable occasion. The Tragic Muse
- I have, God be praised, learned to admire, and not envy every one that outgoes me: and this will, I hope, go a great way in making me easy and happy under the pressures of a very narrow fortune, and amidst the ruffles of an ill-natured world. On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions
- In the past, when homosexuality was still considered shameful, I was slow to confess my desires to anyone - which made my reluctance to return women's affections seem all the more ill-natured.
- During an ill-natured Senate hearing on the treatment of Vietnam veterans he and another senator found themselves in violent disagreement.
- No, that was very mean and ill-natured of her!
- I could not even speak for joy and excitement, and then - how ill-natured of them!
- When he smiled, which was surprisingly often, he succeeded only in looking conspiratorial and ill-natured. IN LOVE AND WAR
- A fascinating variant appeared fifteen years later in The Vermont Anti-Masonic Almanac for the Year of Our Lord 1831: ‘Poor fences make lean cattle and ill-natured neighbors’.
- Ay," said Geordie shortly, "an 'I dinna think you'd ha'e thankit me for comin' in on the tap o 'you, when you were washin' yerself," he said bluntly -- a remark which his wife felt to be a bit ill-natured, though she said nothing. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
