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Discover Ludwig"ill motivated" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it to describe someone who has been motivated by bad reasons or intentions. For example, "The decision to fire the employee was ill motivated and seemingly biased."
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Many of the Iraqi soldiers the allies confronted were ill motivated and ill trained.
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But Peru's teachers remained ill paid, poorly motivated and barely supervised, and were rarely held to account.
On the military side, EU forces (with Britain again a notable exception) are small, badly equipped, ill-trained and poorly motivated.
Cars were generally a collection of poorly designed components assembled by an ill-trained and poorly motivated workforce.
The wildlife gets left in the care of poorly motivated and ill-equipped bureaucrats".
Moreover, the fact that the group faced ill-equipped and poorly motivated Sunni fighters in and around Ramadi did not do anything for Baghdad's standing with the country's already alienated Sunni community, which had pleaded for arms while caught between the unfathomable brutality of IS and revengeful Shia militias.
Putzel notes that in some African countries NACs have been ill-informed and poorly motivated, and this was borne out in some of the studies reported here [ 24].
Finally, both girls spent months on end firing insults at one another, and the bout carried genuine ill-feeling, motivated by contrasting personalities, beliefs and attitudes towards the sport in which they make a living and strive to improve.
When modern treatments fail, the diagnosis is often reevaluated, or traditional treatments are perceived as being more appropriate for the ill child, motivating care-seeking outside of the formal health sector [ 33, 47].
Chronically ill, particularly females with mental illness are motivated to attend smoking reduction and cessation programmes.
When Lee Rigby's killers were found guilty of a terrorist act, they were not called simply mentally ill but ideologically motivated.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
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