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ill-affected

British  

adjective

  1. (often foll by towards) not well disposed; disaffected

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Instantly there flashed upon Judith the intuition that her uncle, heartsick and ill-affected toward the quarrel, had silently withdrawn until it should have been settled one way or another.

From Judith of the Cumberlands by MacGowan, Alice

"So, then, there is a battery preparing to open fire upon us?" said the Viscount, with a laugh of ill-affected indifference.

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James

"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 Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

This confidence was partly owing to full feeding on fine porridge and braxy, but more to that inbred belief of Galloway in itself which the ill-affected and envious nominate its conceit.

From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

The sectarian bodies, though neutralised by their own divisions, are ill-affected behind their mask, and would throw it off if they got the opportunity.

From Hodge and His Masters by Jefferies, Richard

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