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Definition of "ill-affected" [ill-affected]

  • Not well inclined or disposed: as, ill-affected adherents.
  • Affected with bad impressions.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "ill-affected" in a sentence
  • ""The gods grant that he is not so ill-affected by the sight of you, whoever he may be," I laughed."
  • "Alcibiades raves (saith [3404] Maximus Tyrius) and is sick, his furious desires carry him from Lyceus to the pleading place, thence to the sea, so into Sicily, thence to Lacedaemon, thence to Persia, thence to Samos, then again to Athens; Critias tyranniseth over all the city; Sardanapalus is lovesick; these men are ill-affected all, and can never be cured, till their minds be otherwise qualified."
  • "In a State where there is a sense of virtue, a powerful man ought not to give way to the ill-affected, or expose the government to those that are incapable of it, nor suffer high trusts to be committed to those who want common honesty."