ill-kempt

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Examples

• They had rarely seen their own fathers carry small children unless their mothers were ill.

• I am fortunate that I have never been deathly ill, but whenever I have the stomach flu, I most certainly feel like I am dying.

• David Prowse, the actor who portrayed Darth Vader, wished to come back but had to turn down the role because of ill health.

• But Seligman never imagined how Mitchell might put the concept to work, in part because it was so ill-suited to that purpose.

• There is a procedure called “compassionate release” allowing terminally ill men to die at home.

• These differences of interests will lead to disputes, ill blood, and finally to separation.

• And for fear of being ill spoken of weep bitterly for a day, and then comfort thyself in thy sadness.

• G was a gamester, who had but ill-luck; H was a Hunter, who hunted a buck.

• "It is ill-fated;" and Alessandro blamed himself for having forgotten her only association with the name.

• The Marshals were inclined to attribute their disgrace to the ill-will of Berthier and not to the temper of Napoleon.