ill-used

ill-used

1. simple past tense and past participle of ill-use

ill-used (comparative more ill-used, superlative most ill-used)

1. Having been treated badly.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, OCLC 1029993343:

     I said so - I said so warmly, for I felt that the Professor was an ill-used man.

• diuells, illudes, sullied