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ill-used en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (of persons) Having been treated badly.
    • I said so - I said so warmly, for I felt that the Professor was an ill-used man. 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

Forms

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most ill-used Degree=Sup lexicographic
more ill-used Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Coordinates

abused

Relateds

misused

ill-used en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of ill-use
    form of ill-use