ill-used
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8.1
- adjective
- /ˈɪlˈjuːzd/
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- Only when dressed as a town buck again, standing in two inches of snow outside the steel-wrapped door, did it occur to me that I was ill-used.
- think yourself ill-used
Examples
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I've been ill-used and put to work not fit for me.
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I shouldn't have been angry at being ill-used by him; my mistake was obviously in assuming he was capable of friendship to begin with.
Fiction book (1990) -
Yet if I stopped your wages for it, you'd think yourself ill-used, no doubt.
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And yet you don't think me ill-used when I pay a day's wages for no work.
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It was an acceptable hour to call, and even if Helen Carfax were not well enough to receive him herself, it would not matter; his primary purpose was to search Etheridge's papers to see if he could find the letter she had spoken of, or any other correspondence that would indicate an enemy, a woman who felt ill-used, a business or professional rival, anything at all.
Fiction book (1990) -
She felt ill-used by her boss when he never acknowledged her hard work.
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After years of being ill-used in her job, she decided to quit and find a better workplace.
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The children in the orphanage were often ill-used and lacked proper care and affection.
Synonyms
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7.2
Other people make someone do more than is fair
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5.1
Treated unfairly so someone else gains
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4.9
Hurt or not cared for by other people
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7.2
A person whom others take advantage of and do not respect
Treated cruelly or unfairly by other people
Hurt or abused by other people
Treated cruelly or violently, often more than once
Treated unfairly and made to suffer by other people
Antonyms
How Mistreated
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word ill-used comes from ill meaning 'bad' and use meaning 'to treat', so ill-used means 'used badly' and therefore 'treated unfairly'.