ill
/ɪl/ noun C2- Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity. · Music won't solve all the world's ills, but it can make them easier to bear.
- Harm or injury. · I wouldn't want you to do me ill.
- Evil; moral wrongfulness.
- A physical ailment; an illness. · I am incapacitated by rheumatism and other ills.
- PCP, phencyclidine.
Plural ills
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I’m nearly as impolite and disagreeable and ill-mannered as these two old Knickerbocker gents on each side of me that can’t sleep of nights because I bought in between ’em.”
“Kitty has no discretion in her coughs,” said her father; “she times them ill.”
I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life.”
“I beg you will not put it into Lizzy’s head to be vexed by his ill-treatment, for he is such a disagreeable man that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
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