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"speak ill" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is usually used in the context of someone speaking negatively about another person or thing. For example, "She always speaks ill of her neighbors behind their backs."
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Speak ill of the dead?
— Yes, at last we can speak ill of the living.
A journalist does not lightly speak ill of the bench.
If you speak ill of him, they will kill you".
Impolite to speak ill of the career dead.
It is rude to speak ill of the dead.
It feels wrong to speak ill of the president.
"Don't speak ill of Mr Lang," she hisses.
I don't want to speak ill of myself.
No longer did you not speak ill of the dead.
(He was worried, unjustifiably, that they might speak ill of him).
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