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Definition of Ill-humoured
1. Adjective. Brusque and surly and forbidding. "A gruff reply"
Similar to: Ill-natured
Derivative terms: Crust, Curmudgeon, Gruffness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ill-humoured
Literary usage of Ill-humoured
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1808)
"... he would shew the greatest rarity in all the country; Mid that I should have
this to say of China, after all the ill humoured things I had said of it, ..."
2. The Passion of Labour by Robert Lynd (1921)
"The good-humoured, on the other hand, are often nervous of giving offence to the
ill- humoured, just as nine people out of ten give way to a bad-tempered ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1881)
"Then the Doctor becomes ill-humoured at the bad taste of the woman, who has .wedded,
a man like a beetle,, and is elected to the hospital by the Rector, ..."
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