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单词 ill-humoured
释义

ill-humoured

/ˌɪlˈhjuːməd /
adjective
Bad-tempered; irritable: a querulous and ill-humoured little man...
  • She shifted her eyes to Frederick, whose ill-humored reaction to Olivia's slight was quite evident.
  • He turned an ill-humored eye toward Younge, who sat further down the table pouring over the treasury accounts.
  • There are open-air fruit sellers, women "strong as mules, hard as stone, ill-humored."

Synonyms

bad-tempered, ill-tempered, short-tempered, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, in a (bad) mood, cross, as cross as two sticks;
irritable, irascible, tetchy, testy, crotchety, touchy, thin-skinned, scratchy, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, peevish, fractious, waspish, prickly, peppery, pettish, shrewish;
grumpy, grouchy, crabbed, crabby, disagreeable, volatile, splenetic, dyspeptic, choleric, bilious, liverish, cross-grained
informal snappish, snappy, chippy, on a short fuse, short-fused
British informal shirty, stroppy, narky, ratty, eggy, like a bear with a sore head
North American informal cranky, ornery, peckish, soreheaded
Australian/New Zealand informal snaky
informal, dated waxy, miffy
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