释义 |
ill usage, ˈill-ˈusage [Properly two words like harsh usage, worse usage, but commonly hyphened under the influence of ill-used.] The action of using or treating ill; bad or unkind treatment.
[1569in J. Hooker Life Sir P. Carew (1857) 234 The cruel and ill usages of my L. Deputy and Sr Peter Carew.] 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iv. ii, Too much severity and ill usage. 1818Cobbett Pol. Reg. XXXIII. 298 They seldom fail to shew their just resentment of ill-usage. 1867Trollope Chron. Barset I. i. 5 A manifest struggle to do his duty in spite of the world's ill-usage. |