How To Use ill-use In A Sentence
- In reaching the conclusion that Banner had failed to establish a constructive trust over the shares in Stowhelm, the judge expressed ‘some regret because I consider that Banner was somewhat ill-used by Luff’.
- If they don't give a damn about ill-use of their own creations, they could at least give a damn about the kids. Corporatist America vs. The Artist
- Natalya Bessmertnova is delicate as the long-suffering Phrygia, cruelly separated from her husband, ill-used by Crassus and mocked by Aegina, finding Spartacus again only to lose him in the final battle with the superior Roman forces.
- I went for her, when I saw he meant to ill-use thee ... Fiancée
- But in the very next sentence he mocked that he himself had been ill-used.
- Nobody would ever have any cause to say I was not a fair employer since I knew only too well what it was like working as a servant in a large house and feeling as though you were being ill-used and worked to death for little reward.
- And when at his final examination he makes, as nine-tenths of such men do make, a grand crash, and his name comes out in the third or fourth class, or he get "gulfed" altogether -- it is two to one but his friends and his tutor look upon him, and talk of him, as rather an ill-used individual. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845
- Little Benjie seemed somewhat dismayed at my appearance; but, calculating on my placability, and remembering, perhaps, that the ill-used Solomon was no palfrey of mine, he speedily affected great glee, and almost in one breath assured the itinerants that I was 'a grand gentleman, and had plenty of money, and was very kind to poor folk; 'and informed me that this was' Willie Steenson -- Wandering Willie the best fiddler that ever kittled thairm with horse-hair. ' Redgauntlet
- Burton Crescent, making his way through the passage into the outer air, he did so because he feared that Lupex would beat him or kick him, or otherwise ill-use him. The Small House at Allington
- From one point of view, Britain is now marooned in the Atlantic - distrusted by the Europeans, and ill-used by an American administration which remains stubbornly unilateralist and even nationalist.
