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ill-received en · ADJ

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1. Poorly received; not enjoying the positive reception expected.
   • President Clinton's campaign of contrition began in his ill-received Aug. 17 expression of regret. 2012, William Safire, “On Language; Stop Me Before I Apologize Again”, in New York Times:
   • The Human Stain tells the tale of Coleman Silk, a classics tutor at a fictional Massachusetts college, whose life spirals into chaos after he makes an ill-received remark judged by some as a racial slur. 2012, “Author Roth rebukes Wikipedia over Human Stain edit”, in BBC News, BBC:
   • Being one day ill-received, he left off his visits: Rousseau met him afterwards in the street, and asked him why he did not come. 1843, J. Russell, The Causes of the French Revolution, A. & R. Spottiswoode, page 165

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