ill-affected
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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If he lingered they might suppose him lukewarm, if he paused they might think him ill-affected.
From The Long Night by Stanley John Weyman
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 Evelyn S. Shuckburgh
As it proved, both the officers and men of the navy were as ill-affected to James as were those of the army.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston
The sectarian bodies, though neutralised by their own divisions, are ill-affected behind their mask, and would throw it off if they got the opportunity.
From Hodge and His Masters by Richard Jefferies
The ass this ordinance neglected, Though not a creature ill-affected.
From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Elizur Wright
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