Meaning of ill-willing | Babel Free

Definitions

Having or displaying malevolence or ill-will.

Examples

“I don't know how— but it will make me uneasy, if I am to make up my accounts to you: for so well known is your love to us, that though you would no more do in unjust thing, than, by God's grace, we should desire you; yet this same ill-willing world might think it was like making up accounts to one's self.”

“Some quaint device or rare conceit of her nigh frozen Robin Redbreast; praying to be once more cherished from the cold blasts of an ill-willing world, in the warm bosom of Royal favour.”

“But then neither, obviously, is the simple antithesis of an ill-willing delinquency sufficient, for the machinery that thrives on the good will of individuals easily privatises that into a set of individual aberrations—[…]”

“As has been illustrated by numerous scientific articles over the last 30 years, there is almost always a possibility for an ill-willing intruder to re-identify (part of) anonymised microdata, […]”

“Should a person be suffering from the ill-willing attention of one of the fairy people a Fairy Doctor must be found.”

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