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
When Falconer arrived in England Judy was whisked off to a farm in the country, where she was made the slavey of an ill-natured old nurse who treated her like a moral leper.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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