Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Lack of prosperity, happiness, or health.
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- noun   The state of being ill, unhealthy, or unhappy; misery ;miserableness .
- noun Lack of prosperity, happiness, or health.
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- noun lack of prosperity or happiness or health
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Examples
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								Rather than angsting about general ill-being, shouldn't we be firing up the raging energies of "mathletic" entrepreneurs – coding, designing and splicing new markets into being? The wellbeing agenda isn't navel-gazing, it's innovation and survival | Pat Kane 2011 
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								But because there are no obvious symptons just general feeling of ill-being, tiredness, but good diet and training 7 times a week, 3 of these with a top personal trainer, but not losing an ounce in 3 years! 
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								His specialty was the “soft punch” by which he deflated the overly amorous with a thunder blow to the midriff, yet left no scars, no bruises, nothing but a powerful sense of ill-being. A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009 
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								His specialty was the “soft punch” by which he deflated the overly amorous with a thunder blow to the midriff, yet left no scars, no bruises, nothing but a powerful sense of ill-being. A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009 
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								His specialty was the “soft punch” by which he deflated the overly amorous with a thunder blow to the midriff, yet left no scars, no bruises, nothing but a powerful sense of ill-being. A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009 
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								Promoting wasteful consumption creating artificial needs to elicit profit for a few accepting ill-being for many, does not constitute management of evaluated hope through mutual trust. 
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								It can underlie the generation of human vulnerability and ill-being, and even result in violent conflict. 
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								It's not only wealth that matters – it's peace of mind too: a review of participatory work on poverty and ill-being. 
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								It's not only wealth that matters – it's peace of mind too: a review of participatory work on poverty and ill-being. 
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								It's not only wealth that matters – it's peace of mind too: a review of participatory work on poverty and ill-being. 
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