ill-wisher
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ill-wisher
First recorded in 1600–10
Example Sentences
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In town to accept a testimonial resolution, Guru Maharaj Ji, the 15-year-old Indian religious leader, was struck with a shaving-cream pie hurled by a bearded ill-wisher.
From Time Magazine Archive
Beware, beware that any one rebuke or reproach a soul, though he may be an ill-wisher and an ill-doer.
From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá
He believed that England, notwithstanding the kinship of the two peoples and the similarity of their civilizations, was our rival by necessity, our ill-wisher because of the past.
From Stephen Arnold Douglas by Brown, William Garrott
Luke was pleased with this compliment, and very glad that he had been spared the mortification of breaking down before the eyes of his ill-wisher, Randolph Duncan.
From Struggling Upward, or Luke Larkin's Luck by Alger, Horatio
Even they must make hopeful a bloodthirsty enemy, show sympathy with the utmost faithfulness and honor to the perfidious unjust, know the ill-wisher as the well-wisher and torment not the sinner with reproaches.
From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá
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