ill-affected
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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"I have been quite an absentee, sister Mary," said he, with ill-affected pleasantness.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman
It is especially the Dominicans and the Carmelites who are ill-affected towards the new scientific theology.
From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Huizinga, Johan
For assuredly if rumours of your words should reach the King when he was ill-affected, it should go hardly with me.'
From Privy Seal His Last Venture by Ford, Ford Madox
Lord St. Maurice, with a field glass under his arm, went out upon the cliffs, and he returned hatless and with his coat ripped up, shaking his head with ill-affected cheerfulness.
From To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
The King, too, is not ill-affected toward them.
From The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century by Rainey, W. (William)
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