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Definition of Ill-used
1. Adjective. Of persons; taken advantage of. "After going out of his way to help his friend get the job he felt not appreciated but used"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ill-used
Literary usage of Ill-used
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
"GEORGE DAWSON ill-used MEN [Address by George ... In answering the inquiry, who
are ill-used men? ..."
2. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: Together with an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"... pursued with all imaginable malice by them, as one that would have no quarter
upon so infamous terms as but looking on whilst his master was ill used. ..."
3. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"... ill-used against a loyal Subject. Fourth accusation. " The Lincolnshire rebels,
in their six articles of their grievances presented to king Henry VIII., ..."
4. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... North Plantation of Virginia, 1606. taken by the way, and ill used by Spaniards:
written by John Stoneman Pilot. N Tuesday the twelfth of August, 1606. ..."
5. Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: From the Restoration of Charles II by Gilbert Burnet (1840)
"This he set under his hand, probably for his children's sake, who were then
prisoners in the Tower, that so they might not be ill used on his account. ..."
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