ill-affected
Britishadjective
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Definition.—A habit is a perfect and stable quality by which a being is well- or ill-affected in itself, or with regard to its motions.
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"I have been quite an absentee, sister Mary," said he, with ill-affected pleasantness.
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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.
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"So, then, there is a battery preparing to open fire upon us?" said the Viscount, with a laugh of ill-affected indifference.
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For assuredly if rumours of your words should reach the King when he was ill-affected, it should go hardly with me.'
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