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How to use ill-natured in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word ill-natured? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Do you honestly think one chosen by a unicorn would be so ill-natured as to force one of us to do his bidding?
The ill-natured Marx, the venomous Lenin, the murderous Stalin all had a deep-seated loathing of all those who disagreed with them.
I had been aware myself in recent times that this column was dark, unfunny, ill-natured and ill humoured.
During an ill-natured Senate hearing on the treatment of Vietnam veterans he and another senator found themselves in violent disagreement.
Predictably he succumbed to his brother's ill-natured comments and began a whiny protest.
She knew that she sounded ill-natured, but she wasn't particularly in the mood for company.
She proceeded to exploit her ill health to become the most feared of all chronic suffers, an ill-natured and tyrannical invalid.
The ladies trained their beaks on her, like pale, ill-natured birds, and returned to scanning the crowd for safe subjects of ridicule.
Her face was a mass of ill-natured wrinkles and pale blue, watery eyes set close together.
He was not ill-natured and had few if any enemies, but he was quite capable of destroying himself without any help.
Some ill-natured fiends had even suggested that Benjamin Franklin was really Poor Richard.
Sting, another artist who endures any amount of ill-natured, ad hominem criticism, has sold well over 50m records.
A fifth lion, rearing up on its hind legs, prepares to attack an unsuspecting but seemingly ill-natured winged griffin seated stiffly on its haunches.
I ignored the ill-natured feeling and tried to look on the bright side.
It is they who will conduct two years of tortuous, ill-natured negotiations on UK withdrawal with an angry EU driving tough terms to discourage others.
In the first part of this presentation I will deal with the ill-natured effects of prohibitory, exaggerated and emotionally depriving hidden family messages.
Some people were irritated by the size of his ego, but he never let himself be discouraged by ill-natured gossip or the short-term views of some of his contemporaries.
They solve the cryptic crossword together and ignore ill-natured gossip.
I take care to dash the character with such particular circumstance as may prevent ill-natured applications.
The maid was a verjuiced spinster, too old to love herself, and too ill-natured to look on.
Examples from Classical Literature
But what ground is there for the idle, ill-natured gossip that has got on the wind?
They behaved like ill-natured animated things, and did us all the harm they could.
Notwithstanding her action in this matter, Lisa was not an ill-natured or callous woman.
He was leashed to a vile white dog, loathsomely fat, fiendishly ill-natured, gloatingly intractable toward his despised conductor.
They would not trust my aunt without this ill-natured witness.
She was surprised that anybody should be so ill-natured as he was.
She had understood well the ill-natured sarcasm of Miss Altifiorla.
When the Popes have nephews, people say all manner of ill-natured things.
This is an ill-natured statement to send all over the Baltic.
You may be sure that what I shall say to him will not be ill-natured.
It is only ill-natured and ill-nurtured, unworthy and naughty people that are willing auditors or encouragers thereof.
The glummest, ill-natured little thing she used to be and now her and Master Colin laugh together like a pair of crazy young ones.
But at least, Mamma, you cannot deny the absurdity of the accusation, though you may not think it intentionally ill-natured.
But finally she became angry with the ill-natured Mrs. scattergood.
All witches, Partridge, are not such ill-natured hags as that we had the misfortune to meet with last.
She was also so spiteful that she gladly devoted all her time to carrying out all the mean or ill-natured tricks of the whole body of fairies.
Though not ill-natured, she was narrow-minded enough to be in some degree contemptible, and was consequently prone to suspect others of despising her.
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