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.
From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome
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
This confidence was partly owing to full feeding on fine porridge and braxy, but more to that inbred belief of Galloway in itself which the ill-affected and envious nominate its conceit.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
"I have been quite an absentee, sister Mary," said he, with ill-affected pleasantness.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman
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there flashed upon Judith the intuition that her uncle, heartsick and ill-affected toward the quarrel, had silently withdrawn until it should have been settled one way or another.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 MacGowan, Alice
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