ill-affected
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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While Charles had been busy in Germany, Louis had taken the opportunity to put down, one by one, the great nobles who had shown themselves ill-affected.
From Outline of Universal History by George Park Fisher
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 Johan Huizinga
The vessel that has arrived here has brought down some of the ill-affected Portuguese.
From Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Maria Graham
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there flashed upon Judith the intuition that her uncle, heartsick and ill-affected toward the quarrel, had silently withdrawn until it should have been settled one way or another.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 Alice MacGowan
There is no king here so hateful to me as you are, for you are ever quarrelsome and ill-affected.
From The Iliad by Homer
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