What is "ill-use"

Usage examples of "ill-use".

Moreover, Madame, learning of her indisposition, not only gave up her own featherbed to her, but made her a tisane, and showed herself to be in general so full of sympathy that the ill-used beauty, in spite of aching head and limbs, began to feel very much more cheerful, and even expressed a desire to have her child brought to kiss her before he went to bed.

Lincoln was certain that the message, however much it ill-used one officer, would get through to the officer class at Antietam, to their instigators and abettors in the Democratic ranks, and to George McClellan himself.

With all the creaks and groans of ill-used equipment, the gate sprung open.

She had allowed his caress while Lopez was still her husband,--the husband who had ill-used her and betrayed her, who had sought to drag her down to his own depth of baseness.

Finding by this time that his friend is not to be wheedled into a more sociable humour, Mr. Guppy puts about upon the ill-used tack and remonstrates with him.

Yes, corked whiskers on her dear face, - and she was a dear soul to you, Caudle, and you ought to be ashamed of yourself to see her ill-used.

Peter Berrier felt that he was ill-used after all that he had gone through for his King and his country.

Soon not one remained of all those who had filled the church and churchyard, making there a tumult that is chronicled to this very day by some ancient villagers, who still think themselves greatly ill-used because the Reform Act has blotted out of the list of English boroughs the "loyal and independent" borough of Kingswell.

Which is one of my reasons for not dashing away to London in such an unseemly fashion - as though she had been ill-using me, and I had seized the chance offered by her illness to escape!

I would not presume to imply that I was the only young person ill-used by what became of my native culture.