ill-used

English

Verb

ill-used

1. simple past and past participle of ill-use

Adjective

ill-used (comparative more ill-used, superlative most ill-used)

1. (chiefly of persons) Having been treated badly.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     I said so - I said so warmly, for I felt that the Professor was an ill-used man.

Coordinate terms

• abused

 

Related terms

• misused

 

Anagrams

• diuells, illudes, sullied