ill-conditioned

American  

[il-kuhn-dish-uhnd] / ˈɪl kənˈdɪʃ ənd /

adjective

1. in a surly or bad mood, state, etc.

2. not in a good or peak condition.

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Other Word Forms

• ill-conditionedness
  noun

Etymology

Origin of ill-conditioned

First recorded in 1605–15

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

ill-conditioned

Then the game degenerated into a huffing & puffing contest between ill-conditioned athletes.

From Time Magazine Archive

The ill-conditioned pancreases suggested that the patient had been eating a great amount of carbohydrates, like sugar and bread.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal provoked an attack on both the theorists of art for art's sake and the poet: "He went in search of corruption, and the ill-conditioned jade proved a thankless muse."

From Time Magazine Archive

Here, if he had not already persuaded himself that the world was less ill-conditioned than he had lately thought it, was another and a surprising lesson!

From The New Rector by Weyman, Stanley John

But sloth and vicious habits extirpate the seeds of learning planted by preceptors in the minds of ill-conditioned lads.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo