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How to use ill-used in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word ill-used? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Her character just stays in the hotel room the entire day, moping around in panties and looking ill-used.
It's a matter of channeling all that energy that was previously ill-used in trivial squabbles and using it for more bold change.
In its absence, resources used to increase the quality of healthcare delivery may be ill-used.
He had not the moral courage to face a vote, and now he proclaims to the country that he was an ill-used man because he was obliged to resign.
We should seek the cause of this mental epidemic in the ill-used imagination.
The cause of this mental epidemic should be sought for in the ill-used imagination.
If I was to stop half-a-crown for it, you'd think yourself ill-used, I'll be bound?
How could you turn your affection to a man that so ill-used you when I was always there longing for you?
It was a waste of a good pair of shoes and nothing gets under my skin more than ill-used footwear.
But in the very next sentence he mocked that he himself had been ill-used.
But I think she does have some justification for feeling ill-used.
The question should be asked as to whether cultural rights really need a new instrument when there are already several that are ill-understood and ill-used.
His words were that you ill-used me and then utterly disowned us.
The men came there, got her drunk, and held him and ill-used his wife.
Never has Wikipedia's admirable medical section been so ill-used.
Unlike the ill-used parsley sprig, vegetable sprouts have purpose.
But, once the woman is dead, it's hard not to see her as ill-used.
However, if the party who gives in feels pressured or ill-used, resentment or a sense of grievance may follow and lead to difficulties at a later date.
A large gaudy, flowing cravat, and an ill-used silk hat, set well back on the wearer's head, completed this somewhat noticeable costume.
Examples from Classical Literature
I feel ashamed of myself for ever daring to think I'm ill-used when I think of my spaewife grandmother!
Notwithstanding, they are often cheated and ill-used by these double-faced dealers.
To say that he ill-used her in his lifetime is to understate a truth.
You review the whole of your past life, and it is painfully apparent that you have been ill-used from your cradle.
Razumov saw himself shut up in a fortress, worried, badgered, perhaps ill-used.
When the world ill-used them, they sought refuge at the Pierian spring.
I do not mean that he ill-used me, but he did not care for us one bit further than to see that we had plenty to eat, and shelter in the winter.
I never could become an ill-used, suffering, snivelling wife.
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