ill-used

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As I feel we have a strong skill-set which is very frequently ill-used. James

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Quick take

of persons; taken advantage of; "after going out of his way to help his friend get the job he felt not appreciated but used"

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adjective

of persons; taken advantage of; "after going out of his way to help his friend get the job he felt not appreciated but used"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ill-used.

adjective

of persons; taken advantage of; "after going out of his way to help his friend get the job he felt not appreciated but used"

See also: exploited, put-upon, used, victimized, victimised

Example sentences

As I feel we have a strong skill-set which is very frequently ill-used. James

I'm pretty skeptical that Black was ill-used by the prosecutors. But even if he were, then as long as he was no more ill-treated than the average drug defendant, then I don't think we should worry about him more than the average drug defendant.

I was not "triggered", but it stood out to me and bothered me, as well — I thought that the it was ill-used, and undermined you rhetorically. It's too horrific and overbearing a word to be used for most metaphors, overpowering whatever it gets attached to.

That said, I am not hostile to courts and would be the first to say that they serve us well on many fronts - that is what saddens me all the more about the way litigation can be so ill-used in our society as well.

An elderly and often ill-used lady, forever harassed by her younger male colleagues for a quick identification, Blodwyn has been in the job forty years and works underneath Sentinel House, where she presides over the huge archive of pictures that make up MI6's "mug book." Not a book at all, it is in fact a cavernous vault where are stored rows and rows of volumes of photographs, of which Blodwyn alone possesses an encyclopedic knowledge.