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But not everybody is ill-willed; some are just ill-informed.

From Washington Post • Mar. 5, 2019

More importantly, as employers, industry leaders and Americans -- we have a moral obligation to protect these children from ill-willed policies and practices.

From The Verge • Sep. 5, 2017

Certainly in the captivity of John Slover, another of Crawford's ill-starred and ill-willed crew of marauders, there were few gleams of happier chance to distinguish it from most histories of the sort.

From Stories Of Ohio by Howells, William Dean

Parable apart, my ill-willed brethren, our ill-will has made us very fiends in human shape. 

From Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) by Whyte, Alexander

Then said Thorvid the Stammerer: 'Atti quarrelsome, covetous, ill-willed, silly, foolish.'

From The Red True Story Book by Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)