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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

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)

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