The Collaborative International Dictionary
ill-humored \ill-humored\ ill-humoured \ill-humoured\adj. ill-natured; having a sour, disagreeable, or surly disposition. Opposite of good-natured.
Syn: crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff.
WordNet
adj. brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply" [syn: crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored]
Usage examples of "ill-humoured".
She never liked to come back to the house after she had left it, or to face the landlady who had tyrannised over her when ill-humoured and unpaid, or when pleased had treated her with a coarse familiarity scarcely less odious.
Fouquier-Tinville, surly and ill-humoured, had his back half-turned towards him, was moodily picking at his teeth.
As I was coming along, our Portuguese pilot, who had always something or other to say to make us merry, told me he would show me the greatest rarity in all the country, and that I should have this to say of China, after all the ill-humoured things that I had said of it, that I had seen one thing which was not to be seen in all the world beside.
But such duties can surely give no pleasure, and may well make even a decent man ill-humoured and overbearing.