ill-lighted

Henry James, visiting the painting in Venice, wrote that it “unites the most masterly finish with a kind of universal largeness of feeling,” but griped in 1882 that at the Schiavoni “the pictures are out of sight and ill-lighted, the custodian is rapacious, the visitors are mutually intolerable.”

Taxing obstacles and thwarting dead-ends lurk around every ill-lighted corner.

As the dark nights of the late autumn came on, the fears of the timid and nervous were doubled, and persons who lived in lonely places, or in the ill-lighted parts of towns, became afraid to leave their houses after nightfall.

Finding his way through one or two long ill-lighted passages, Richard of Woodville opened the door of the room appropriated to the daily meals of the guests and their host, and had not long to wait for the object of his compassion.

As was not uncommon in such houses at that time, no door on either hand gave admission to the rooms of the inn till the visiter had threaded half way through the small ill-lighted passage.