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ill nature

NOUN
  1. a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition

How To Use ill nature In A Sentence

  • Old Morrison was all for it; he had gluttonized to such a tune that he'd put on flesh alarmingly, and all he wanted to do was lie down, belching and refreshing his ill nature in a hot climate. Flashman's Lady
  • But this _insensibility_, this heartlessness, gives very much the effect of a positive and real ill nature, and M. Bergson had thus simply repeated and expressed in a new way, more precise and correct, the opinion of Aristotle: the cause of laughter is malice mitigated by insensibility or the absence of sympathy. Introduction to the Science of Sociology
  • As it happens, the universe has its own constants, in the form of unvarying quantities that endlessly reappear ill nature and in mathematics, and whose exact numerical values are of signal importance to the pursuit of science.
  • Grizelda, it is now more then fitte time, that thou shouldst taste the fruite of thy long admired patience, and that they who have thought me cruell, harsh and uncivill natured, should at length observe, that I have done nothing basely, or unadvisedly. The Decameron
  • Despite the ill nature of the offer, the city offered to put it on the ballot along with a vote to municipalize, but Xcel refused, demanding that the city also offer citizens a separate "status quo" measure. John Farrell: Utility Fights Dirty in City's Battle for Clean Local Energy
  • And failure will definitely also with vain and extravagant of the ill nature is a premise.
  • Yet some ill natured skeptics have construed this to mean that all will tell lies sometimes, for -- as they accent it, even "Truth _lies_, at the bottom of a well! The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages
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