1. (a.) Of habitual bad temper; surly; peevish; fractious; cross; crabbed; as, an ill-natured person.

2. (a.) Dictated by, or indicating, ill nature; spiteful.

3. (a.) Intractable; not yielding to culture.

Elucidations.
... thought it necessary to put the reader on his guard against certain of these
expressions; and Semler has noticed, with a sort of ill-natured industry (we call ...
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How, Upon Herod's Going Down into David's Sepulcher, the Sedition ...
... of one fresh quarrel or another arose among his relations, and those that were dearest
to him; for Salome was of a harsh temper, and ill-natured to Mariamne's ...
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Ill-Temper
... of prodigals. God's love for poor sinners is very wonderful, but God's
patience with ill-natured saints is a deeper mystery. The ...
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Letter ii. Self-Control and Self-Culture.
... Yet you need, over and over again, to fortify yourself against temptation to hasty
or ill-natured or improper speech by determining beforehand that you will ...
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The Note of Pity.
... There is such a thing as bad-tempered, ill-natured preaching, in which the weapons
of the Bible armoury are borrowed for the expression of the preacher's ...
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Matthew xx. 1, and C.
... probable, and, I believe, certain, that the main, if not the whole, Design of it,
was to account for that Stumbling-block, as it was indeed, to the ill-natured ...
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The Church as She Should Be
... Shall we be guided by the praises of those neighbors who are on good terms with
her, or by the scandal of those who make her the subject of ill-natured gossip? ...
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Stiff-Necked Idolaters and Pliable Christians
... So we may profit by even the ill-natured and distorted likenesses of ourselves as
contrasted with the adherents of other religions which so many 'liberal-minded ...
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Interview with Mr. Mendizabal
... I certainly do not think him the most tractable of men, but I am inclined to think
that he is not ill-natured, as he preserved his temper very well during the ...
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Letter clxvii . To Rusticus, Bishop of Gallia Narbonensis, with ...
... religion; for the direst persecution is often inflicted by nonconformity of practice
and persistent disobedience and the barbs of ill-natured tongues: and ...
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Ill-natured (3 Occurrences)
Ill-natured. Illiterate, Ill-natured. Illness . ... 1. (a.) Of habitual bad temper;
surly; peevish; fractious; cross; crabbed; as, an ill-natured person. ...
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Illness (15 Occurrences)

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Quarrels (10 Occurrences)
... no true knowledge, but is crazy over discussions and controversies about words which
give rise to envy, quarrelling, revilings, ill-natured suspicions, (See NIV ...
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Quarrelling (5 Occurrences)
... has no true knowledge, but is crazy over discussions and controversies about words
which give rise to envy, quarrelling, revilings, ill-natured suspicions, (WEY ...
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Ugly (7 Occurrences)
... repulsive; deformed. 2. (superl.) Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome;
as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly. 3. (superl.) Unpleasant ...
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Grumble (13 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vi) To murmur or mutter with discontent; to make
ill-natured complaints in a low voice and a surly manner. ...
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Illiterate (2 Occurrences)

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Discussions (11 Occurrences)
... has no true knowledge, but is crazy over discussions and controversies about words
which give rise to envy, quarrelling, revilings, ill-natured suspicions, (WEY ...
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Dissension (18 Occurrences)
... no true knowledge, but is crazy over discussions and controversies about words which
give rise to envy, quarrelling, revilings, ill-natured suspicions, (See RSV ...
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Puffed (13 Occurrences)
... no true knowledge, but is crazy over discussions and controversies about words which
give rise to envy, quarrelling, revilings, ill-natured suspicions, (WEY ...
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