Recent Examples of Synonyms for ill-natured
Adjective
  • On Monday, after Rodgers and former head coach Robert Saleh had spent several months bickering over topics such as unexcused absences and cadence, the irritable quarterback won out again.
    Rob Reischel, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Within a couple of weeks of wearing the buds, my ears stopped having the irritable side effects.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 3 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Intimations of violence are regular features of Trump rhetoric, and many of his supporters may be angry enough to respond.
    Barton Gellman, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The set includes eight emotions: happy, sad, angry, surprised, silly, anxious, loved, and tired.
    Toby Rose, Parents, 24 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Buried in a bland mixed-use skyscraper in the dreary Financial District downtown, an aging, if glamorous, 1929 movie palace with rotten acoustics long served as the San Diego Symphony’s disagreeable home.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2024
  • The fasting is uncomfortable, the prep is disagreeable, and the procedure itself requires you to be put to sleep.
    Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • This is sort of a fitting end for the most cantankerous Fromvillian.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
  • There’s a nice thread of That Christmas that eventually focuses on a budding friendship between Danny and his neighbor and teacher Ms. Trapper (Fiona Shaw), a cantankerous woman who makes the Grinch seem amiable.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Not altogether surprising because the proliferation of guns and incendiary political rhetoric over the past few decades — and especially the last few bilious years — made the shooting at a Trump rally in Butler, Pa., seemingly just a matter of time.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2024
  • The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) Rampant exposure to this movie on cable suggests that Scorsese’s bilious portrait of Jordan Belfort may soon join GoodFellas as one of the director’s most intensely rewatchable efforts.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
Adjective
  • And while there is enough splenetic wit and manic detail to generate obsessive fandom (entire sections of Web sites are dedicated to deciphering just what Kenny is mumbling), subjects like alien abduction, genetic engineering, and Kathie Lee are hardly original targets for satire.
    Chris Norris, SPIN, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Meanwhile, the commentator and controversialist Piers Morgan, an obsessively close observer and relentless critic of Meghan, inevitably waded in with his usual splenetic views.
    Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2022
Adjective
  • Chief among them – though this lead, like every other character, goes nameless – is an ornery sort played by Mastandrea himself.
    Ben Croll, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
  • In fact, the part of Mabel, housewife to ornery construction worker Nick (played by Peter Falk) and mother to three rather unruly kids, was originally written by Cassavetes for the theater.
    Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • This ensures that the acid and electrolyte levels in your blood (including sodium, calcium, phosphorus, and potassium) remain at the ideal concentration.
    Kumkum S. Patel, Verywell Health, 26 Sep. 2024
  • There are also Italian furnishings and materials designed by Cassina, B&B and Minotti in colors rosso ancora, acid green and acid yellow, aligning with creative director Sabato De Sarno’s contemporary aesthetic and complementing the latest Gucci’s collections.
    David Moin, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019

Thesaurus Entries Near ill-natured

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“Ill-natured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ill-natured. Accessed 12 Nov. 2024.

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