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Ill-natured synonyms
ĭl'nā'chərd
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cross
Contrary or counter; opposing.
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  1. Contrary or counter; opposing.
  2. Involving reciprocal actions, etc.
  3. Lying or passing crosswise; intersecting:
disagreeable
Hard to get along with; quarrelsome
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  1. Hard to get along with; quarrelsome
  2. Not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable.
  3. Exciting repugnance; offensive to the feelings or senses; displeasing; unpleasant.
surly
Bad-tempered; sullenly rude; hostile and uncivil
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  1. Bad-tempered; sullenly rude; hostile and uncivil
  2. Threatening, menacing, gloomy.
  3. Threatening, as of weather conditions; ominous:
spiteful
Full of or showing spite; purposefully annoying; malicious
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  1. Full of or showing spite; purposefully annoying; malicious
  2. Filled with, prompted by, or showing spite; malicious.
Find another word for ill-natured. In this page you can discover 6 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for ill-natured, like: cross, disagreeable, surly, spiteful, irritable and sullen.

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  • These were mostly ill-natured, and mostly have a merely local application.

  • Only the interest of the matter prevents one from thinking of Rivarol's ill-natured remark upon Condorcet, that he wrote with opium on a page of lead.

  • Modius Salium, a Collection of Pieces of Humour, chiefly ill-natured personal stories, was published at Oxford in 1751, 12mo.

  • Pelletan's indiscreet speeches did him no good; and he became a common subject for ill-natured caricatures.

  • His very proper unwilli gness to stoop to deny an accusation, that would have been .o disgraceful if it had been true, made ill-natured and silly.

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