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