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ill-used

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ill-use (lyz)
tr.v. ill-used, ill-us·ing, ill-us·es
To maltreat.
n. (lys)
Unjust or poor treatment; ill-usage.
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Adj.1.ill-usedill-used - of persons; taken advantage of; "after going out of his way to help his friend get the job he felt not appreciated but used"
put-upon, victimised, victimized, used, exploited
misused - used incorrectly or carelessly or for an improper purpose; "misused words are often laughable but one weeps for misused talents"


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Of course, it is a very bad habit; but I am sure, if all she says be true, she must have been very ill-used before she came here.
Black Beauty by Sewell, Anna View in context
And it did not seem particularly dreadful, because besides the masters he had served here, like Vasili Andreevich, he always felt himself dependent on the Chief Master, who had sent him into this life, and he knew that when dying he would still be in that Master's power and would not be ill-used by Him.
Master and Man by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Many persons occasion seditions in oligarchies because they think themselves ill-used in not sharing the honours of the state with their equals, as I have already mentioned; but in democracies the principal people do the same because they have not more than an equal share with others who are not equal to them.
A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context
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