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 only the ill-affected, the malcontents, who dwell upon such details.
From Copper Streak Trail by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove
For what citizen can there be found so ill-affected as to wish by one vote to draw two daggers against the Republic?
From The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Shuckburgh, Evelyn S.
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
“His name is Benden, and the folks be but ill-affected to him for his hard ways and sorry conditions.”
From All's Well Alice's Victory by Lewin, M.
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