ill (adv.)
imperfectly, poorly, to ill effect
AW IV.ii.27[Diana to Bertram] would you believe my oaths / When I did love you ill?
Cor III.i.319[Menenius to all, of Coriolanus] He has been bred i'th' wars / Since 'a could draw a sword, and is ill schooled / In bolted language
H8 II.i.34[First Gentleman to Second Gentleman, of Buckingham] something spoke in choler, ill and hasty
LLL IV.i.25[Princess to Forester] Now mercy goes to kill, / And shooting well is then accounted ill
TC III.iii.229[Patroclus to Achilles] Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves
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