Quotes about "ill"

• Noun: an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining

• Adj: affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; example: "ill from the monotony of his suffering"

• Adj: resulting in suffering or adversity; examples: "ill effects", "it's an ill wind that blows no good"

• Adj: distressing; examples: "ill manners", "of ill repute"

• Adj: indicating hostility or enmity; examples: "you certainly did me an ill turn", "ill feelings", "ill will"

• Adj: presaging ill fortune; examples: "ill omens", "ill predictions", "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelle", "a dead and ominous silence prevailed", "a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government"

• Adv: (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well; examples: "he was ill prepared", "it ill befits a man to betray old friends", "the car runs badly", "he performed badly on the exam", "the team played poorly", "ill-fitting clothes", "an ill-conceived plan"

• Adv: unfavorably or with disapproval; examples: "tried not to speak ill of the dead", "thought badly of him for his lack of concern"

• Adv: with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly; example: "we can ill afford to buy a new car just now"