bad-humored

At the Piedras Blancas elephant seal rookery, a breeding ground for the jumbo, bad-humored mammals just north of San Simeon, Ryan Riezebos and his wife, Lori, made the hours-long drive from the Central Valley recently for a look at the animals and the ocean along Highway 1.

And like Mr. Pence, Mr. Biden found himself trying to repair some of the political damage from Mr. Obama’s sluggish and bad-humored performance in the earlier first debate against Mitt Romney.

Doña Victorina was becoming bad-humored.

“For a dead person, of course,” replied the bad-humored man.

“Is it being bad-humored to be sad?” she asked; “and why can’t I be decided if I want to be?”