ill-affected
Britishadjective
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At last they took themselves off like ill-affected meddlers in a love match, and the day grew bright and warm.
From Nature's Serial Story by Edward Payson Roe
There is no king here so hateful to me as you are, for you are ever quarrelsome and ill-affected.
From The Iliad by Homer
While Charles had been busy in Germany, Louis had taken the opportunity to put down, one by one, the great nobles who had shown themselves ill-affected.
From Outline of Universal History by George Park Fisher
The government meant to make an example of some of of us, as a lesson to the ill-affected, in the shape of some fifteen years in the hulks.
From The Eureka Stockade by Raffaello Carboni
"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
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