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ill-disposed
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ This simple fact was studiously ignored by ill-disposed critics, then and since.
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ill-disposed

a. Not much disposed towards somebody or something; unsympathetic.

Usage examples of "ill-disposed".

Cloister Palace, where many of the courtiers were ill-disposed toward Tadamori.

I believe both Mercheson and Ogun-aiji may be in immediate danger from various persons and agencies ill-disposed toward the treaty.

This polite and pleasant abbe, who had become extremely crafty from having lived all his days amongst the high dignitaries at the court of the 'Servus Servorum Dei' (the best school of strategy), was not altogether an ill-disposed man, but both his disposition and his profession conspired to make him inquisitive.

In view of the fact that be bad aboard some ill-disposed person who was clearly a dab hand with some of the more esoteric poisons this was as unwarrantedly optimistic a statement as I could remember making, but I had to say something.

In this twofold character they are ill-disposed towards the ancient régime, hostile to Catholicism and feudal rights, unfavorable to the clergy and the nobility, inclined to extend the bearing and exaggerate the rigor of recent decrees, partisans of the Rights of Man, and, therefore, humanitarians and optimists, disposed to excuse the misdeeds of the people, hesitating, tardy and often timid in the face of an outbreak - in short, admirable writers, exhorters, and reformers, but good for nothing when it comes to breaking heads and risking their own bones.

As a precaution, and to impose on the ill-disposed, the petitioners provide themselves with arms and line the approaches.

It determined the well disposed among them to frown upon every thing of the kind hereafter, and the ill-disposed returned to order from fear if not from better motives.