ill-natured

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Ill-natured, aye," quoth Kitty, with a comical sigh; "the world's awry this morning and I must vent my crossness on somebody, so let it be Peggy.

From An Unwilling Maid Being the History of Certain Episodes during the American Revolution in the Early Life of Mistress Betty Yorke, born Wolcott by Lincoln, Jeanie Gould

Ill-natured critics compared Diderot's play with Rousseau's opera; they insisted that The Natural Son and The Village Conjuror were a couple of monuments of the presumptuous incompetence of the encyclopædic cabal.

From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by Morley, John

Ill-natured persons hinted, in reference to his business, that he had used poison rather than the knife wherewith to loosen the stubborn hinges of the bivalve.

From The Clarion by Stevens, William Dodge

Ill-natured people have said that this was no fairy-gift, but that love created the change.

From The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

"Ill-natured and envious creatures as ever I met," he mused.

From A Reconstructed Marriage by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston