The phrase "ill finished" is not grammatically correct or commonly used in written English.
It would be more accurate to say "poorly finished" or "unfinished." The phrase "ill finished" may be understood by some native speakers, but it would not be considered standard or formal usage. Example: The painting looked beautiful from afar, but upon closer inspection, I could see that it was ill finished with uneven brushstrokes and smudged edges.
(For good or ill, he finished his book before Steven Tyler and Kesha kicked off a mania for rooster-plume hair extensions, causing a kerfuffle among fly fishers and animal-rights activists).
Raphael's signature appeared in partial form, suggesting that he had been too ill to finish writing his name.
In 1898, the older man, in failing health, wrote to Stratemeyer at Good News and asked him to complete a story that he was too ill to finish.
Other stories followed, but he was too ill to finish his project of expanding Die Mappe meines Urgrossvaters into a novel: only the first volume was completed.
In early 1817, the year she died, suffering, perhaps, from lymphoma and beginning work on a novel she became too ill to finish, Jane Austen wrote a letter to her 8-year-old niece, Cassandra.
Along with his second wife Georgina Denison (they had one daughter, Chloe; Georgina completed his memoirs when he became too ill to finish the book), Gill was a great encourager of talent.
Roger Clemens (8-1) became ill as he finished warming up in the bullpen, but pitched eight innings, allowed seven hits and struck out six, improving his career mark to 268-143.
I sewed my first top out of cotton bought at a Midlands street market and danced around the house with joy at my ill-fitting, badly finished make.
The double stage winner Thomas Dumoulin was forced to pull out with a broken bone in his wrist, which could have implications for the Olympic time trial in Rio, while the young British sprinter Dan McLay fell on a road junction while riding alone, to no ill-effect, but finished last, four minutes off the back of the last group.
REBOUNDS LARRY JOHNSON, ill with the flu, finished with 21 points and 10 rebounds in 35 minutes.... JEFF VAN GUNDY was moved by his milestone victory.
"I'm a father myself and the thought that either of my kids were ill and that they finished up in a police cell, I regard as abhorrent".
