ill-use
verb (used with object)
to treat badly, unjustly, cruelly, etc.
have been ill-using
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present perfect progressiveof ill-use.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Some girl must have been ill-using him, or he imagines that she has.
From The Beetle by Richard Marsh
"These are his sisters too," she thought, "and I have been ill-using them; forgive me, I've done wrong," But the ladies were angry still.
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck
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