ill-used
IPA: ɪɫjˈuzd
adjective
- (chiefly of persons) Having been treated badly.
Examples of "ill-used" in Sentences
- The third wife was certainly ill-used, as Mauki could see for himself.
- Each photo showed her a little more bedraggled, a little more ill-used.
- It caught the mood of those of us who felt we were being ill-used by agents of a new reformation.
- I used to live in a place with lots of feeder and express, and they were ill-used by the middle classes.
- She had survived, she had avenged herself, she had affirmation, money and power, when so many ill-used women have to struggle through life with nothing.
- It doesn't help that Billie is surrounded by characters as unstable as she is, from Zack's friends to Jensen's frenzied Olivia — which means this wonderful actress is as ill-used here as she was in Ugly Betty.
- Like unpaid interns who devalue the work of their colleagues at the same time that they are ill-used, a wave of philanthropy on the scale envisaged by the coalition would inevitably make some officials wonder why they pay people for tasks a volunteer would do for nothing.
- Episode's climax is an engagement dinner party to end all scandalous dinner parties, as the Graysons-plus-Emily are interrupted by an enraged and confrontational Jack, who's viewed the tape left under his bed revealing Victoria's affair with the late and ill-used David Clarke.
- Also picking up the pace this week: How I Met Your Mother, introducing a very spirited Jennifer Morrison (so ill-used in recent years on House) in a recurring role as Ted's new sparring partner, Zoey, an activist whose latest cause is protesting the new GNB headquarters Ted is designing from the ruins of a landmark hotel.