ill

Evil; wicked (of people).

St. Paul chose to magnify his office when ill men conspired to lessen it.

A man who is conscious of having an ill character, cannot justly be angry with those who neglect and slight him.

Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.

‘Go bring her. It is ill to keep a lady waiting.’

Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.

He suffered from ill treatment.

Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.

ill manners; ill will

[…]his lordship was out of humour. That was the way Chollacombe described as knaggy an old gager as ever Charles had had the ill-fortune to serve. Stiff-rumped, that's what he was, always rubbing the rust, or riding grub, like he had been for months past.

Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.

mentally ill people

I've been ill with the flu for the past few days.

Not well; imperfectly, badly

Such jealousy ill becomes her; she can ill afford another gaffe like that.

He would have conversed as usual; but his attempts were so ill seconded, that he was fain to take refuge in the letters that lay beside him.

Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.

Music won't solve all the world's ills, but it can make them easier to bear.

That makes us rather bear those ills we have / Than fly to others that we know not of.

Harm or injury.

I wouldn't want you to do me ill.

Loue worketh no ill to his neighbour, therefore loue is the fulfilling of the Law.

Evil; moral wrongfulness.

Strong virtue, like strong nature, struggles still, / Exerts itself, and then throws off the ill.

A physical ailment; an illness.

I am incapacitated by rheumatism and other ills.

PCP, phencyclidine.