ill-affected
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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He is cunning in men, not to surprise, but keep his own, and beats off their ill-affected humours no otherwise than if they were flies.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
"I have been quite an absentee, sister Mary," said he, with ill-affected pleasantness.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
"Well, this is the spider's web, you know," he said, with the good-humored laugh of one who could afford to despise the slanders of the ill-affected.
From Running Water by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
The vessel that has arrived here has brought down some of the ill-affected Portuguese.
From Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Maria Graham
It is only the ill-affected, the malcontents, who dwell upon such details.
From Copper Streak Trail by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
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