ill-natured
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Jackson has given the British thesp a horrible long-haired comb-over that serves to signpost the character's tricksy, ill-natured temperament.
From The Guardian • Mar. 25, 2013
Catching us wondering how Mr Palmer in Sense and Sensibility, an intelligent but ill-natured man, could possibly have married a woman as idiotic as Charlotte Jennings, Austen lets Elinor reflect on the puzzle.
From The Guardian • May 18, 2012
Sting, another artist who endures any amount of ill-natured, ad hominem criticism, has sold well over 50m records.
From The Guardian • Sep. 18, 2010
The Maestro seen here is ill-natured, stubborn, suspicious, resentful.
From Time Magazine Archive
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His marriage was now fast approaching, and she was at length so far resigned as to think it inevitable, and even repeatedly to say, in an ill-natured tone, that she “wished they might be happy.”
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
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