Ill-humoured

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    British standard spelling of ill-humored.
Adjective
  1. 1
    brusque and surly and forbidding wordnet

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crustycurmudgeonlygruffill-humored

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"The sky was so starry, so bright that, looking at it, one could not help asking oneself whether ill-humoured and capricious people could live under such a sky."

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