They solve the cryptic crossword together and ignore ill-natured gossip.
Some ill-natured fiends had even suggested that Benjamin Franklin was really Poor Richard.
The ill-natured regularly insist that Lloyd Webber "stole" music from the classics.
The horses are fretful and uneasy, the children, cold and hungry, the women, vexed and weary, the men ill-natured and impervious.
Sting, another artist who endures any amount of ill-natured, ad hominem criticism, has sold well over 50m records.
Her face was a mass of ill-natured wrinkles and pale blue, watery eyes set close together.
Booth's character, Mike Rawlins, was a ne'er do well, not ill-natured but full of glib permissive cliches and doomed to make nothing of his life.
It is they who will conduct two years of tortuous, ill-natured negotiations on UK withdrawal with an angry EU driving tough terms to discourage others.
He was not ill-natured and had few if any enemies, but he was quite capable of destroying himself without any help.
By the 17th century, people were imagining trips to the Moon and encounters with lunar inhabitants who, Mr. Brunner tells us, "are hardly ever imagined as inferior, ill-natured or threatening".
So Monk's five takes on the subject, each progressively more wilting and detumescent, seem vaguely ill-natured: a gloaty rubbing of the hands at the art market's collapse, a swipe by one man at another's virility.
