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ill-affected
adjective
- often foll by towards not well disposed; disaffected
Example Sentences
At Kharta, where they found little to amuse them and no work to employ their time, they had sought diversion with the aid of liquor and become discontented and ill-affected.
Definition.—A habit is a perfect and stable quality by which a being is well- or ill-affected in itself, or with regard to its motions.
"I have been quite an absentee, sister Mary," said he, with ill-affected pleasantness.
Lord St. Maurice, with a field glass under his arm, went out upon the cliffs, and he returned hatless and with his coat ripped up, shaking his head with ill-affected cheerfulness.
"So, then, there is a battery preparing to open fire upon us?" said the Viscount, with a laugh of ill-affected indifference.
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