How To Use Ill-natured In A Sentence
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‘The way you're holding that bow, it couldn't do much damage anyway,’ came his reply to my ill-natured question.
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Do you honestly think one chosen by a unicorn would be so ill-natured as to force one of us to do his bidding?
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about the spinachthing,, i think the ones who did drank it,, becomes more "speeded" ; and can last longer physically when escaping the ill-natured rampage.
Michael Stahl-David Interviews
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Placed on Diana's left at table, he gave her much voluble information about her neighbors, mostly ill-natured; he spoke familiarly of "that clever chap Marsham," as of a politician who owed his election for the division entirely to the good offices of Mr. Fred Birch's firm, and described Lady Lucy as "an old dear," though very "frowsty" in her ideas.
The Testing of Diana Mallory
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There is also a ridiculous braggart warrior, and two maidens of different aspect and character, one fair and ill-natured, the other ugly and compassionate, who both visit a magic well in search of a husband.
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Callan was brought to ill-natured life by actor Edward Woodward, who added a complex moral dimension to the hard-bitten killer, whose life on the edge of society leaves him little room for a personal life.
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She knew that she sounded ill-natured, but she wasn't particularly in the mood for company.
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Other people we have spoken to believe they are sold to universities for testing purposes, or for use in dog fights (they use these good-natured pets and have vicious ill-natured animals tear them apart for profit and amusement).
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A fifth lion, rearing up on its hind legs, prepares to attack an unsuspecting but seemingly ill-natured winged griffin seated stiffly on its haunches.
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She proceeded to exploit her ill health to become the most feared of all chronic suffers, an ill-natured and tyrannical invalid.
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It is a most ill-natured thing, and the bane of friendship, to retain the resentment of affronts and injuries, and to let that word devour for ever.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)
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Ye ill-natured, thrawn, upsettin 'blastie, ye donnart auld deevil!" he cried.
The Lilac Sunbonnet
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I had been aware myself in recent times that this column was dark, unfunny, ill-natured and ill humoured.
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It is more an ill-natured rant than a measured analysis.
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Predictably he succumbed to his brother's ill-natured comments and began a whiny protest.
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The ill-natured Marx, the venomous Lenin, the murderous Stalin all had a deep-seated loathing of all those who disagreed with them.
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The ladies trained their beaks on her, like pale, ill-natured birds, and returned to scanning the crowd for safe subjects of ridicule.
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Even the most ill-natured horses can be ridden by the right kind of rider.
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Money, indeed, if certain ill-natured gossip of tradesmen be true, has been an inconsiderable factor in the encompassment of this sartorial distinction.
The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation
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I ignored the ill-natured feeling and tried to look on the bright side (if there was one).
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Haven't you met an ill-natured Christian before?
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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
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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’.
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When he smiled, which was surprisingly often, he succeeded only in looking conspiratorial and ill-natured.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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I could not even speak for joy and excitement, and then - how ill-natured of them!
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No, that was very mean and ill-natured of her!
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During an ill-natured Senate hearing on the treatment of Vietnam veterans he and another senator found themselves in violent disagreement.
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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.
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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
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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
