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
Abdu’l-Bahá is deemed a deadly enemy, the ill-wisher of the Crown.
From The Will And Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá by `Abdu'l-Bahá
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
Failure to arrest means dismissal from the service and punishment as an ill-wisher.
From Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 by De Benneville, James S. (James Seguin)
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
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