ill-being

How to use ill-being in a sentence

• For instance what on earth had possessed me to take such an interest in the well-being or ill-being of Major Sewin and his family?

  A Frontier Mystery | Bertram Mitford

• The ill being now irremediable, to make up the dress in the cheapest manner possible was the only consolation that remained.

  Camilla | Fanny Burney

• It is ill being prudent before experience, and wise before instruction.

  Dust | Julian Hawthorne

• A widowed father in Emma's class is an ill being to live with.

  The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight | Elizabeth von Arnim

• So the little play would end without ill being done to her or him.

  Graham of Claverhouse | Ian Maclaren