Sentence examples for ill word from inspiring English sources

She can't say an ill word about Mr. Lange — he's "wonderful," "kind," "generous" — instead reserving all her (seemingly mild) anger for Ms. Thiébaud.

"She never said an ill word about Dad to us children," Ms. Cash writes, but about June Carter she could toss off "a venomous indictment".

Mr. Amaree speaks cautiously, never saying an ill word of the man he met only once but gazed at in photographs innumerable times.

Years later, when I became engaged to a Puerto Rican man, their prejudices had evaporated — so much so, in fact, that when our union did not last, my parents did not utter one ill word about his heritage or culture.

There is nary an ill word said between them.

I never heard him say an ill word about anybody else.

Know therefore and be well assured, that unless thou go forth to the war, this thing shall happen unto thee thou art grown mighty and puissant in a short space, so likewise shalt thou within a little time be brought low indeed". "Artabanus, at the moment I acted foolishly, when I gave thee ill words in return for thy good advice.

In fact, despite the ill words which greeted its latest missile shots, observers predict that the North is preparing a fifth nuclear test.

I have never had a weird, awkward situation with these men; while I may argue with them, there is never disrespect, ill words or misinterpretations.

Not much later the king became ill, and word went out that the only way to heal him was with apples from paradise.

You might think that an overused and ill-defined word, but no other will suffice.