How To Use Ill-use In A Sentence
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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’.
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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
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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.
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I went for her, when I saw he meant to ill-use thee ...
Fiancée
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But in the very next sentence he mocked that he himself had been ill-used.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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But I think she does have some justification for feeling ill-used.
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He preached it to his daughter that the fellow might ill-use her in some way.
Amy Foster
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The men came there, got her drunk, and held him and ill-used his wife.
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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
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But that is no reason why you should ill-use them: but only why you should pity them, and be kind to them, and hope that some day they will wake up, and be ashamed of their nasty, dirty, lazy, stupid life, and try to amend, and become something better once more.
The Water Babies
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She seemed to me to walk nervously, as if brought up for punishment; and a thought took me -- and I shall be glad of it when I come to die -- that if they meant to ill-use her I might do worse than assault that venerable pair with my bombardon and end my adventures with credit.
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales
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I do not despise your child… just the memory of how you were so ill-used.
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Indeed, comparing him to Benedict Arnold is instructive: both gifted men were at times disgracefully ill-used.
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He would feel the want of you without having the satisfaction of fancying himself ill-used, and ---- for your substitute is altogether as good a Nemesis as one would wish to hear of.
Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Then by ill-use of God's Law, Jews turn these poor Gentiles, through guilt and despair, to hatred for God.
Danny Miller: Kristallnacht: 70 Years Later
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On his way to a house-sitting gig in Beverly Hills courtesy of his sister, played the equally ill-used Kaley Cuoco, Fred's car hits E.B. So they meet cute, then squabble continually for an hour before actually bonding.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Hop
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Frequently ill-tempered and ill-used, their natural ability to survive for long periods without food or water nevertheless makes them valuable both as baggage animals and troop-carriers.
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[Be] sly and artful in his behaviour to some, and imperious and cruel to others; being under a kind of necessity to ill-use all the persons of whom he stood in need, when he could not frighten them into compliance, and did not judge it his interest to be useful to them.
Ashley Rindsberg: Mr. President, You Are Sick With Self Love
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Thomas felt ill-used and left, disgusted with the process.
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‘And I was just coming in to tell you that I would always cling to you, and never desert you, ill-use me how you might!’
The Hand of Ethelberta
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Her character just stays in the hotel room the entire day, moping around in panties and looking ill-used.
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It was a waste of a good pair of shoes and nothing gets under my skin more than ill-used footwear.
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For my part I consider that it is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman, and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary to beat and ill-use her; and it is seen that she allows herself to be mastered by the adventurous rather than by those who go to work more coldly.
Balkinization
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To hurt or injure by maltreatment; ill-use.
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How could you turn your affection to a man that so ill-used you when I was always there longing for you?
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In every age, in every clime, she is dear, at any rate to the masculine soul, this soft, tear-blenched, blonde, ill-used thing.
Twilight in Italy
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Little Benjie seemed somewhat dismayed at my appearance; but, calculating on my placability, and remembering, perhaps, that the ill-used
Redgauntlet
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Kelly, a whistleblower who the government would naturally have despised, was elevated to the role of a honourable man whom Gilligan had supposedly ill-used to further his nefarious anti-government agenda.
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I gather she may have been ill-used.
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His words were that you ill-used me and then utterly disowned us.
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There will be the collieshangie when they see our marks in the snaw, but they'll founder their horses on the brae and ill-use time tae nae purpose, if just we get ower the common.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran
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They fight every kind of animal, goats, birds, even quails and larks, which are very plucky, and want to fight; but they pull them off if they want to ill-use one another too much.
The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
