ill
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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.Example Sentences
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The majority of the studies on UPFs that make headlines are observational papers looking at associations between self-reported food intake and health outcomes—these tell us little about whether UPFs actually cause ill health.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026
Few works of American literature are as extensively analyzed and critiqued for their impact, for good or ill, on our cultural mythmaking.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
The right-back did not complete the entire session, but James is expected to be available to face Norway this weekend providing he feels no ill effects from Thursday's session.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
“If you feel anyone close to you may pass or is critically ill, discuss that openly with the insurance professional you’re working with,” said Greenfield-Turk.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
If I moved it, I would certainly be ill against the wall.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
As Dan Kois illustrates in this ode to kicking back with friends, spending unstructured time together is a blessedly simple cure to the ills of modern life.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026
An experience completely ignorant to the ills of modern football, to politics, ticket prices or hydration breaks.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
In the video, Pratt stood outside Raman’s Silver Lake home and the city-owned Getty House in Hancock Park, where Bass lives, contending both are far removed from the urban ills that beset other Angelenos.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
A Google user experience team two years later detailed ills affecting viewer well-being, based on external research.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
“But, you,” she said, stroking my cheek, “are my sweetest gift. The life surprise that soothed all my ills and gave me my greatest joys. I feel so blessed you are mine.”
From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
"If you have a generally iller population, that's not good for the residents, it's not good for productivity, it's not good for the economy.'"
From BBC ● May 25, 2023
This gave him an unnatural appearance and made him look iller than ever.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 30, 2019
He got iller and iller and iller, and of course he died in the beginning of 2015 when some of the other things had started appearing in the press.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2016
Still, in his older, iller years, he's become kinder, even to himself, and though he wished he'd done some stuff better, he could live with it.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 23, 2012
Still, if this be snow in earnest," he added with a cheerier tone, "it may rid us of these vermin, who'll find provand iller to get every extra day they bide.
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil
The Black neighborhoods like Baldwin Hills Estates, Ladera Heights and View Park all sit hillside with some of the illest views in the city.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
His wife was told she should prepare for the worst, with staff describing her husband as "one of the illest people they'd ever seen".
From BBC ● May 21, 2024
Rapper Travis Scott told his nearly 12 million followers on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, that Monday “might be one for the illest days in women’s sports historyyyyyyy.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 2024
It’s one of the illest, if not the illest Caribbean food spots in the city.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 22, 2022
There was just a little milk that was reserved for the illest patients, no butter or bread.
From Field Hospital and Flying Column Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium & Russia by Thurstan, Violetta
A 29-year-old homemaker in the Houthi-held city of Hodeida, where rebel media said the plane had landed, said she was worried more conflict lay ahead, "without producing any results, just making the current crises worse".
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
Nor are they likely to climb much higher unless the fighting becomes worse and the Strait of Hormuz, a critical transit route for oil supplies, is closed to shipping traffic.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
With high winds, dry land and soaring temperatures, Malcolm believed there could not have been a worse combination.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Even worse, recognizing the long con has degraded offline interactions as well.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
Torak didn’t know if he felt better or worse for telling her.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
That matched France’s worst World Cup performance in 76 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
The fact that Argentina have the worst aerial duel success rate of the final four should give England hope that their threat in the air can continue.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
"Of course, rhetoric can soften. We've seen that movie before. But for now, traders are forced to assume the worst."
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
When Kirchner vanished in November, his own comrades feared the worst.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Staying there in Maidin Bay wasn’t going to be the worst thing.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
