Ill-natured

Ill-natured, spiteful, moody wretch! thought I (trembling at his strange silence, after such hurt as he had done me, and what I had endured, and still felt in my stomach and arm) what an odious creature thou art!

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

Ill-natured people say that his chest is all wool, and that his hair, because it never grows, is a wig.

Vanity Fair 2006

Ill-natured persons whispered that he was not on all occasions true to his party; and once when his master, the whip-inchief, overborne with too much work, had been tempted to put himself to bed comfortably in his own house, instead of on his usual uneasy couch behind the

The Three Clerks 2004

"Ill-natured little tyrant!" cried Ericson, rushing to her, "teach me how you would have me love you, and I will do everything you ask!"

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various

Ill-natured people were apt to hint that he had amassed his wealth by means of usury and the taking up of shady cases.

Adrien Leroy Charles Garvice

Nature; so We may make a Lass Ill-natured and Satyrical, for Instance, if 'tis not in her Temper, but assumed only for a good Purpose.

A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) Thomas Purney

'Ill-natured!' answered the other; 'I'm doing her a favor.

The Doll and Her Friends or Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina Unknown

Ill-natured people say that his chest is all wool, and that his hair, because it never grows, is a wig.

XXVIII. In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries 1917

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.

The Clarion Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

Ill-natured people said that the matter in his paper might possibly be accounted for by the gratitude of the candidates, and the fact that Mr. Pardriff and his wife and his maid-servant and his hired man travelled on pink mileage books, which could only be had for love -- not money.

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909