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or importance. Lewd, shallow-brained huffs make atheism and contempt of religion the sole badge . . . of wit. South. To take huff, to take offence. Cowper.

The state of being huffish; petulance; bad temper. Ld. Lytton.

An instrument out of tune or rudely constructed; music badly played.

idea that the train has started," and the other "had no idea that the dinner would be so bad!" Trench.

Contrary to good, in a physical sense; contrary or opposed to advantage, happiness, etc.; bad; evil; unfortunate; disagreeable; unfavorable. Neither is it ill air only that maketh an ill seat, but ill ways, ill markets, and ill neighbors. Bacon. There 's some ill planet reigns. Shak.

Badly educated or brought up; impolite; incivil; rude. See Note under Ill, adv.

Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv.

Of habitual bad temper; peevish; fractious; cross; crabbed; surly; as, an ill-natured person.

Of bad temper; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome.

Misapplied; treated badly.

The condition of being ill, evil, or bad; badness; unfavorableness. [Obs.] "The illness of the weather." Locke.

e is no change of fortune in it; implex, when the fortune of the chief actor changes from bad to good, or from good to bad. Addison.

The quality of being impolitic; inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud. Bp. Horsley.

To advance or increase by use; to augment or add to; -- said with reference to what is bad. [R.] We all have, I fear, . . . not a little improved the wretched inheritance of our ancestors. Bp. Porteus.

; to charge to one as the author, responsible originator, or possessor; -- generally in a bad sense. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise. Gray. One vice of a darker shade was imputed to him -- envy. Macaulay.

Badly put together; inartificial; rude; unpolished; irregular. "Carol incondite rhymes." J. Philips.

Not corrigible; incapable of being corrected or amended; bad beyond correction; irreclaimable; as, incorrigible error. "Incorrigible fools." Dryden.

Neither particularly good, not very bad; of a middle state or quality; passable; mediocre. The staterooms are in indifferent order. Sir W. Scott.

Incapable of being The bad seed thus sown was ineradicable. Ld. Lytton.

Of very bad report; having a reputation of the worst kind; held in abhorrence; guilty of something that exposes to infamy; base; notoriously vile; detestable; as, an infamous traitor; an infamous perjurer. False errant knight, infamous, and forsworn. Spenser.