Noah Webster's Dictionary 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.

Multi-Version Concordance Ill-natured (3 Occurrences) 1 Timothy 6:4 he is puffed up with pride and has no true knowledge, but is crazy over discussions and controversies about words which give rise to envy, quarrelling, revilings, ill-natured suspicions, (WEY) 1 Samuel 25:17 Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house; for he is such a worthless fellow that one can't speak to him." (See RSV) 1 Samuel 25:25 Please don't let my lord regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal; for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your handmaid, didn't see the young men of my lord, whom you sent. (See RSV)