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(Bad), adjective adverse, antagonistic, baleful, belligerent, calamitous, cantankerous, corrupt, crabbed, crabby, cross, damaging, degenerate, deleterious, depraved, destructive, detrimental, evil, fell, fractious, harm, harmful, hostile, hurtful, immoral, inauspicious, infelicitous, iniquitous, injurious, insult, irascible, irritable, low, mean, mischief, nefarious, nocuous, pernicious, ruinous, sinful, snappish, snappy, sullen, trouble, unfavorable, unfriendly, unkind, unkindly, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, wicked, wrong

ill

(Sick), adjective afflicted, ailing, bedridden, diseased, feeble, feverish, has a medical condition, in the hospital, indisposed, infirm, laid up, malady, not feeling well, not up to snuff, not well, on the sick list, out of commission, under the weather, weak
Associated concepts: fee for service, health care
See also: pain, trouble, unsound
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They are speaking ill of others, as they are drowning.
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Ireland has always embraced a tradition of not speaking ill of the dead and Sweeney has crossed the line with his disgusting attack on his ex-fiancee.
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Speaking Ill Of The Dead is broadcast on RTE Radio1 on Monday nights at 8.
Historian in blast at 1916 hero
Jim to his mother-in-law: "I wasn't speaking ill of the dead, I was speaking about you, the living bloody dead
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Perhaps she, like you, felt inhibited about speaking ill of the dead up to now.
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This may be a slag job, but it's a meticulously researched slag job (a thousand interviews were conducted for Summers' book), and tonight's special has many of Nixon's closest allies (Henry Kissinger, James Schlesinger, John Sears (who was recently ID'd - incorrectly, he claims - as Deep Throat in yet another new Nixon book), along with Jack Dreyfuss, Nixon's drug supplier, all speaking ill of the dead.
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So instead of speaking ill of Marcel, let me suggest Britain pays a fitting tribute to him.
EAU DO BE QUIET
Speaking Ill Of The Dead is on RTE Radio1 tonight at 8.
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