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ill humour n
a disagreeable or sullen mood; bad temper ill-humoured adj ill-humouredly adv ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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Justine, you may remember, was a great favourite of yours; and I recollect you once remarked that if you were in an ill humour, one glance from Justine could dissipate it, for the same reason that Ariosto gives concerning the beauty of Angelica--she looked so frank-hearted and happy. In such circumstances a man necessarily gets in an ill humour, and works off the irritation by some excess or other. There is something indefinably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners of her eyes without turning her head which could be pleasantly dispensed with, especially when she is in an ill humour and near knives. |
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