ill-turned

'It's a husband you should be seeking, not some ill-turned adventure against Kor's Accursed that could leave you dead, or much worse.'

Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988

Unlike Raphael, who was working in the neighbouring stanze, and who was contented to pass, and some would have us believe to execute, ill-turned foreshortenings and false drawing, so long as his general effect was preserved and the work done in reasonable time.

Michael Angelo Buonarroti Charles Holroyd 1889

[118] I differ from Mr. Croker in the explanation of this ill-turned sentence.

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

If the beam is ill-turned and irregular in shape, no even, perfect woof can come from it.

Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

In writing without form or reflection your ideas and feelings of the moment, trusting to the partiality of your friend every imperfect thought, and to his candour every ill-turned phrase.

Memoirs of Aaron Burr Davis, Matthew L 1836

In writing without form or reflection your ideas and feelings of the moment, trusting to the partiality of your friend every imperfect thought, and to his candour every ill-turned phrase.

Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1. 1811

In writing without form or reflection your ideas and feelings of the moment, trusting to the partiality of your friend every imperfect thought, and to his candour every ill-turned phrase.

Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete 1811

Her complexion was but indifferent, and the lower part of her face ill-turned, for her chin was too long for due proportion.

The Governess; or, Little Female Academy Sarah Fielding 1739

"The more I see of your sister Marge, the more I regret the time that I spent on Mrs. Siddons, who was also theatrical; my compliment that I should go down to posterity on the hem of her garment was not ill-turned, but she is more likely to go down to posterity as the subject of my art.

Marge Askinforit Barry Pain 1896