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ill-humored
ill humor
noun
a disagreeable or surly mood.
Origin:
1560–70
1560–70
Related forms
ill-hu·mored, adjective
ill-hu·mored·ly, adverb
ill-hu·mored·ness, noun
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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| ill-humored | |
adjective | |
| brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply" [syn: crusty] |
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