Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective taken advantage of; treated badly; -- of persons.
- adjective Misapplied.
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- adjective of persons; taken advantage of
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Examples
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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.
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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.
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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.
Do we really want to be policed by hobby bobbies? Catherine Bennett 2010
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The third wife was certainly ill-used, as Mauki could see for himself.
MAUKI 2010
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It caught the mood of those of us who felt we were being ill-used by agents of a new reformation.
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Each photo showed her a little more bedraggled, a little more ill-used.
Fatal Error J.A. Jance 2011
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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.
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I used to live in a place with lots of feeder and express, and they were ill-used by the middle classes.
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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.
Poor, shy, sweet Diana? Don't make me laugh | Barbara Ellen 2011
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Each photo showed her a little more bedraggled, a little more ill-used.
Fatal Error J.A. Jance 2011
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