Definition of "ill-used" []

• Taken advantage of; treated badly; -- of persons. (adjective)
• Misapplied. (adjective)

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• "I used to live in a place with lots of feeder and express, and they were ill-used by the middle classes."
• "Episode's climax is an engagement dinner party to end all scandalous dinner parties, as the Graysons-plus-Emily are interrupted by an enraged and confrontational Jack, who's viewed the tape left under his bed revealing Victoria's affair with the late and ill-used David Clarke."
• "She had survived, she had avenged herself, she had affirmation, money and power, when so many ill-used women have to struggle through life with nothing."