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
On the second day of my ordeal, so facing the laughers, I found myself facing straight into the monocle of my half-brother and ill-wisher, Prince Caravacioli.
From The Beautiful Lady by Tarkington, Booth
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
He lifted his hand as he said this, with a strange and passionate gesture, then turned himself about and went in, and Mr. Grand drove off more his ill-wisher than before.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur
Abdu’l-Bahá says:— Among the teachings of Bahá’u’lláh is one requiring man, under all conditions and circumstances, to be forgiving, to love his enemy and to consider an ill-wisher as a well-wisher.
From Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era by Esslemont, J. E. (John Ebenezer)
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