ill-affected
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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He is cunning in men, not to surprise, but keep his own, and beats off their ill-affected humours no otherwise than if they were flies.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
This latter was Schartlin's programme; the Tyrolese had Protestant sympathies and dreaded the advent of the foreign troops; Charles averred that even their government was ill-affected.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 by Johnson, Rossiter
"So, then, there is a battery preparing to open fire upon us?" said the Viscount, with a laugh of ill-affected indifference.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James
There is no king here so hateful to me as you are, for you are ever quarrelsome and ill-affected.
From The Iliad by Homer
"Well, this is the spider's web, you know," he said, with the good-humored laugh of one who could afford to despise the slanders of the ill-affected.
From Running Water by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
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