ill-humored
- s brusque and surly and forbidding
- With good-and ill-humored grotesqueries, he pokes at modern man's neuroses, pretensions and follies.
- When the girls sued, ill-humored Irwin Meyer contended they should have known better than to ride with an ill-humored driver.
- Given Britain's seemingly inexhaustible appetite for stories about spies and public scandal, these allegations inevitably touched off a lively debatenot all of it ill-humored.