bad humor

“Do I have to think of everything?—as Léonce says when he’s in a bad humor. I don’t blame him; he’d never be in a bad humor if it weren’t for me.”

Later, I understood that the indignity I felt was not a mark on me: Bad humor is merely tedious, an experience to endure and then forget.

After that, Aunt Loma stayed in a bad humor with everybody, especially Uncle Camp.

There’s no Good Humor truck to shake us from our bad humor.

Having delineated a family Christmas in which any number of those gathered behave with as much bad humor as good, “The Hard Nut” shows, with splendid help from its bold and often simple black-and-white designs, that childhood innocence stands in strong contrast to adult worldliness.