Usa "ill-natured" in una frase
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ill-natured
1. I would gasp ill-natured epigrams from morning till night
2. When faced with ill-natured people, we should think about the fact that in the past they
3. “What?” She responded, her tone decidedly ill-natured
4. I believe that not a thousand miles from these shores certain public prints have betrayed in gothic letters their satisfaction-- to speak plainly--by rather ill-natured comments
5. The manner in which Miss Steele had spoken of Edward, increased her curiosity; for it struck her as being rather ill-natured, and suggested the suspicion of that lady's knowing, or fancying herself to know something to his disadvantage
6. What an ill-natured woman his mother is, an't she? And your brother and sister were not very kind! However, I shan't say anything against them to you; and to be sure they did send us home in their own chariot, which was more than I looked for
7. That sounds ill-natured: but she was so proud, it became really impossible to pity her distresses, till she should be chastened into more humility
8. There were no mutual concessions; one stood erect, and the others yielded: and who can be ill-natured and bad-tempered when they encounter neither opposition nor indifference?
9. Often, when, for instance, one man was sent away from one `job' to another, the others would go into his room and look at the work he had been doing, and pick out all the faults they could find and show them to each other, making all sorts of ill-natured remarks about the absent one meanwhile
10. It, too, came finally to rest on the last topic, that is, ill-natured gossip
11. That sounds ill-natured: but she was so proud it became really impossible to pity her distresses, till she should be chastened into more humility
12. There were no mutual concessions: one stood erect, and the others yielded: and who can be ill-natured and bad-tempered when they encounter neither opposition nor indifference? I observed that Mr
13. The manner in which Miss Steele had spoken of Edward, increased her curiosity; for it struck her as being rather ill-natured, and suggested the suspicion of that lady’s knowing, or fancying herself to know something to his disadvantage
14. As no scandalous, ill-natured rumour had reached her, it was impossible for her to understand much of this strange letter
15. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature
16. Jessie was not as ill-natured as she was silly
17. One death, and a hundred lives in exchange—it’s simple arithmetic! Besides, what value has the life of that sickly, stupid, ill-natured old woman in the balance of existence! No more than the life of a louse, of a black-beetle, less in fact because the old woman is doing harm
18. He was an ill-natured man
19. And for that purpose he kept several distant relations: his sister, a sickly and peevish woman; two of his wife's sisters, also ill-natured and very free with their tongues, and his old aunt, who had through some accident a broken rib; he kept another dependent also, a Russianised German, for the sake of her talent for entertaining him with stories from the Arabian Nights
20. All these ill-natured women and sickly children, together with their tormentor, were crowded together in a wooden house on Petersburg Side, and did not get enough to eat because the old man was stingy and gave out to them money a farthing at a time, though he did not grudge himself vodka; they did not get enough sleep because the old man suffered from sleeplessness and insisted on being amused
21. He had to grovel before his ill-natured mother-in-law, to beg for the money for one bottle and then for another
22. It is only with you I have good moments, else you know I am an ill-natured man
23. “You are not ill-natured, but distorted,” said Alyosha with a smile
24. The story was this: Some officers were eating oysters and, as usual, drinking very much, when one of them said something ill-natured about the regiment to which Kaminski belonged, and Kaminski called him a liar
25. The chairman, an ill-natured man at best, was in a particularly bad humour that day
26. The President, always an ill-natured man, was in a particularly bad humor to-day
27. Tom could imagine the girl’s latter history from what he knew of the artists’ colony in New York; the years in the art school, where she had worked hard and no one had been sufficiently ill-natured or had cared enough for her to tell her to give it up, and then the misguided judgment which had led her to take a studio for herself
