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ill
adjective as in sick
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adjective as in bad, evil
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- acrimonious
- adverse
- antagonistic
- cantankerous
- damaging
- deleterious
- detrimental
- disrespectful
- disturbing
- harmful
- harsh
- hateful
- hurtful
- ill-mannered
- impertinent
- inauspicious
- inimical
- iniquitous
- injurious
- malevolent
- malicious
- nocent
- nocuous
- noxious
- ominous
- ruinous
- sinister
- sullen
- surly
- threatening
- unfavorable
- unfriendly
- ungracious
- unhealthy
- unkind
- unlucky
- unpromising
- unpropitious
- unwholesome
- vile
- wicked
noun as in misfortune
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Example Sentences
It included a private meeting with Pope Francis in the Vatican, where the pontiff, who has been seriously ill, gave them his best wishes for their 20th wedding anniversary.
Teams keeping possession has helped remedy somewhat one of the persistent ills in the Premier League of recent seasons - the low amount of time the ball has actually been active during a game.
A woman described as a "devoted daughter" has received a suspended prison sentence after she admitted the manslaughter of her terminally ill father.
The far-right anti-Islam activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson, has urged the Court of Appeal to let him out of prison early because he says it is making him ill.
The cost of living crisis was making people ill and there would be a "flood" of people needing support as benefit changes came into force, a Sheffield GP has warned.
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When To Use
What are other ways to say ill?
The adjective ill is more mild than evil or wicked, and it appears mainly in certain fixed expressions: ill will; ill-natured. Evil applies to that which violates or leads to the violation of moral law: evil practices. Wicked implies willful and determined doing of what is very wrong: a wicked plan. Bad is the broadest and simplest term: a bad man; bad habits.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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