Definition of "ill-set" [ill-set]

• Set or disposed to evil; ill-natured; spiteful.
• Having the type incorrectly set; ill-printed.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Lady Pen, with her old-fashioned, ill-set diamonds, and my Lady Binks, with the new-fashioned finery which she swopt her character for."
• "His right forearm and leg were no longer bent in ill-set lines."
• "There are not many things more disagreeable than a very stupid and ill-set old woman, who, quite unaware what her opinion is worth, expresses it with entire confidence upon many subjects of which she knows nothing whatever, and as to which she is wholly incapable of judging."