Example Sentences
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The very readable, if long and winding, “The Calamity Club” focuses on a crew of frequently ill-used, tough-minded white women.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
The film tells us that she’s had a storied career; we see only a helicopter mom played by an ill-used Annette Bening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2022
Well, maybe, though I’m not sure the Joan embodied here by the gifted but ill-used Jo Lampert should be taken as a paradigm for today’s wearers of pink pussy hats.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2017
And actually serious party officials like Spicer were ill-used and degraded.
From US News ● Jul. 20, 2016
Fjalar and Galar told people who passed their fortress the story of how ill-used they had been by Suttung.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
