How To Use ill-use In A Sentence
- To hurt or injure by maltreatment; ill-use.
- 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
- 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.
- [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
- Thomas felt ill-used and left, disgusted with the process.
- ‘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
- Her character just stays in the hotel room the entire day, moping around in panties and looking ill-used.
- It was a waste of a good pair of shoes and nothing gets under my skin more than ill-used footwear.
- 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
- 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
