Reverse Dictionary: IL – ILLD

ILL, ILLNESS – adjectives (also see SICK)
– ABED confined to bed by illness; laid up …1660
– ABOUT TO DIE taken seriously or suddenly ill …1902 Amer. dial.
– ABOUT TO KICK THE BUCKET taken seriously or suddenly ill …1902 …Amer. dial.
– ABOUT TO PASS taken seriously or suddenly ill …1902 Amer. dial.
– AILISH slightly ill …1941 Amer. dial.
– AILY slightly ill, not well …1952 Amer. dial.
– ALL-GONE fatigued, weak, somewhat ill, lifeless, without energy …1950 Amer. dial.
– ALL OVER generally ill; of pain, etc.: that affects the whole body …1861 colloq.
– ALL-OVERISH having a general feeling of illness or agitation that seems to affect the whole body; generally indisposed; off-colour …1820 colloq.
– AT THE END OF ONE’S ROPE fatally ill …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BAD ill, sick, in pain; injured …1716 Sc. & Eng. & Amer. dial.
– BAD-A-BED so ill as to be obliged to remain in bed …1875 Eng. dial.
– BAD IN ONESELF ill generally, but without any particular local ailment …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BADLY unwell, indisposed, sick, in ill health …1783 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– BAD SICK seriously ill …1928 Amer. dial.
– BELOW PAR somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BLUE AROUND THE GILLS ill; nauseated …Bk2006 US sl.
– BOOKED fatally ill; beyond recovery …1968 Amer. dial.
– BRASH indisposed; susceptible to illness; sickly, in poor health …1895 Amer. dial.
– BRASHY indisposed; susceptible to illness; sickly, in poor health; weak; of delicate constitution; subject to frequent ailments …1895 Sc. & Amer. dial.
– BUM ill, though not seriously so …1943 Amer. dial.
– BUMMY ill, though not seriously so, indisposed …1931 Amer. dial.
– BUNGED UP ill, out of health …1909 Amer. dial.
– BUTCHER’S ill …1967 Aust. rhyming sl. for ‘crook’
– BUTCHER’S HOOK ill …1967 Aust. rhyming sl. for ‘crook’
– CROOK ill …1908 Aust. & NZ colloq.
– DANGEROUS in danger from illness; dangerously ill …1797 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– DEAD-A-BIRD nearly dying; ill …1893 Eng. dial.
– DEAD-ILL sick with a mortal malady …1897 Sc.
– DEATH-SICK sick unto death, mortally sick or ill …1628
– DEPRAVED weakly, ill …B1900 Eng. dial.
– DICKEY ill …1883 Brit. sl.
– DICKY of persons, animals, etc.: poorly, out of sorts, in weak health, ill …1883 Eng. dial.
– DOWN ill …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– DOWN IN THE DIKE unwell, ill …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DOWN IN THE MOUTH somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– DOWN ON THE LIFT too weak to stand unaided; sick, ill, ailing, or exhausted …1952 Amer. dial.
– DUMPY somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– FEELING FUNNY somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– FEELING LIKE THE WRATH OF GOD feeling very ill, esp. if from a bad hangover …c1950 sl.
– FIN OUT injured, ill; near death …1916 Amer. dial.
– FRAGILE ill …1883 sl.
– FUNNY ill …1898 sl.
– GREEN ABOUT THE GILLS ill, nauseous, sickly-pale …1949 UK sl.
– GRIM ill …1984 sl.
– HAVING THE IMPUCK somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– HAYWIRE ill …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– HEARTSICK mortally ill, sick unto death …Bk1902 Eng. dial. 
– ICKY ill …1939 sl.
– ICKY-BOO ill …1920 sl.
– ICKY-POO ill …1920 sl.
– IKKY ill …1939 sl.
– ILL-AFFECTED † affected with illness or indisposition; diseased …1604 
– ILL AS A WITCH, AS very ill …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– ILLISH * somewhat ill or unwell; indisposed …1637
– IN A BAD WAY ill; in trouble
– INDIFFERENT poorly, bad, ill …1889 Eng. dial.
– INDISPOSED ill …20C colloq.
– IN ONE’S NAKED BED ill; confined to bed …1914 Amer. dial.
– LEWDLY, poorly, ill …c1386
– LIKE DEATH WARMED UP ill …1939 sl.
– LOUSY ill …1933 sl.
– LUNK feeling ill …L19 Irish sl.
– MENDIC sick, ill …c1925 Aust. sl.
– MICKY sick, ill …L19 rhyming sl.
– MINDIC sick, ill …1920s Aust. sl.
– MOBY DICK sick, ill …1990s rhyming sl.
– MUFFED-UP suffering from an imaginary or pretended illness …1954 Amer. dial.
– NOTHING TO BRAG ABOUT somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– NOTHING TO SHOUT ABOUT somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– NOTHING TO WIRE HOME ABOUT somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– NOTHING TO WRITE HOME ABOUT somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– NOT UP TO DICK somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– NOT UP TO PAR somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– NOT UP TO SAMPLE somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– NOT UP TO SCRATCH somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– NOT UP TO SNUFF somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– NOT UP TO THE MARK somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– OFF in ill health; feeling or looking unwell; despondent, unenthusiastic …1890s colloq.
– OFFAL in ill health …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– OFFALOUS in bad health …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– OFF COLOUR slightly indisposed; ill …1876 sl.
– OFFISH unwell, out of health, somewhat ill, indisposed …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– OFF OF ONE’S FEED unable to eat normally; slightly ill; indisposed …1965 Amer. dial.
– OFF ONE’S EATS unable to eat normally; slightly ill; indisposed …1965  Amer. dial.
– OFF ONE’S FEED unable to eat normally; slightly ill; indisposed …1862 Amer. dial.
– OFF ONE’S FORM somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– OFF POLISH somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– OFF THE HOOKS somewhat ill; indisposed; unwell, ailing …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– OFF TONE somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– ON THE LIFT 1. too weak to stand unaided; sick, ill, ailing, or exhausted …1888 Amer. dial.
2. convalescent, getting better after an illness …1892 Amer. dial.
– ON THE SICK used to denote incapacity due to illness, and receipt of sickness benefit …1976 sl.
– ON THE SICK-LIST ill …20C colloq.
– OOLIE ailing, ill, out-of-sorts …1929 Sc.
– OOLIE-LIKE ailing, ill, out-of-sorts …1929 Sc.
– OUT OF ONE’S FORM somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– PEAKISH weak, ill …Bk1903 Eng. dial.  
– PEAKY sickly, unwell, in poor health, ill…1821
– PECULIAR ill …1954 sl.
– POORISH somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– POORLYISH somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– PUNKISH somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– PUNKY somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– QUEER ill …1781 sl.
– RAMSHACKLE in a state of ill health, weak …1889
– RAUNCHY ill, unwell …1970s US campus sl.
– ROCKY in poor health; ill, unwell …L18
– ROPEY ill …1945 sl.
– ROPY ill …1945 sl.
– ROTTEN ill …1881 sl.
– ROUGH ill …a1893 sl., orig. Eng. dial.
– SAD-BAD ill; in health; very bad …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SADLY in bad health, ill, poorly …1711 now Eng. dial.
– SADLY-BAD very ill …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SADLY-BADLY very ill or unwell; very much indisposed …1880 Eng. dial.
– SADLY-POORLY very ill …Bk19604 Eng. dial.
– SADLY-SURRILY very ill …Bk19604 Eng. dial.
– SCABBED mean, paltry, worthless, petty; ill-looking, shabby …1794 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SEEDY ill …1858 sl.
– SHITTY unwell, ill …1920s US sl.
– SICK ABED ON TWO CHAIRS not seriously sick or ill …1968 Amer. dial.
– SICK ABED ON TWO CHAIRS WITH ONE’S FEET IN THE WOODBOX not seriously sick or ill …1968 Amer. dial.
– SICK AS A CAT very sick or ill…L17 sl.
– SICK AS A MULE extremely sick or ill …M18 sl.
– SICK IN FOURTEEN LANGUAGES very sick or ill indeed …L19 US sl.
– SICK IN ONE’S NAKED BED ill; confined to bed …1896 Amer. dial.
– TEWLY in ill health …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– UNDER THE WEATHER ill …1850 sl. orig. US
– VARMENT-LOOKING ill-looking …1851 Eng. dial.
– WAMBLE-CROPPED vaguely unwell, under the weather …1844 Amer. dial.
ill, illness – nouns
– ACCESS a coming on of illness or disease, esp. of sudden illness …c1325
– ACME the point of extreme violence of a disease or illness; the crisis …c1630 arch.
– ACT pretended illness or ill-temper …1940s Aust. sl.
– AIL an illness, ailment, or complaint …1750 Eng. dial.
– AILING sickness, ailment, a long-standing illness …Bk1898 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– ALL-INS general feelings of discomfort, illness, annoyance, or vexation …1967 Amer. dial.
– ALL-OVERISHNESS * a feeling of illness or extreme agitation seeming to affect the whole body …1820 colloq.
– ALL-OVERNESS * a feeling of illness or extreme agitation seeming to affected the whole body; the state of feeling generally ill …1792 colloq.
– ALL-OVERS general feelings of discomfort, illness, annoyance, or vexation …1893 Amer. dial.
– BACKCAST a misfortune, reverse; used often of a relapse during illness or a moral backsliding …1818 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– BACKENING relapse in illness …1878 Eng. dial.
– BACK-FLING a relapse during illness …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BACK-GAIN a relapse in illness …Bk1898 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– BACK-KNOCK a relapse during illness …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BACKSET a relapse in illness …Bk1898 Sc.
– BACK-THRUST a relapse during illness …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BADLINESS illness, sickness …1878 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– BADNESS sickness, illness, disease …1885 Eng. dial.
– BARCOO SPEW illness accompanied by attacks of vomiting …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
– BARLEY-FEVER illness caused by drinking to excess …1828 Sc.
– BED-EVIL † illness or sickness that confines to bed …1609 obs. exc. Sc.
– BLAST a sudden illness; a chill …Bk1911 Sc.
– BOT a minor illness; a cold, etc. …1968 NZ colloq.
– BUG, THE. a cold or illness, esp. the flu …1914 Amer. dial.
– BUNK FATIGUE illness requiring a patient to stay in bed …Amer. World War I sl.
– CACOPATHY †* an old term for a severe affliction or malady …1721
– CAPE FEVER a feigned illness …1830 US nautical sl.
– CHOKERMAN’S BRUTE any illness not otherwise known or named …1958 Amer. dial.
– CRUD any disease or illness …1932 sl.
– DEAD-ILL a mortal illness …1822 Sc.
– DEATH-ILL † mortal illness …c1425
– DECUMBITURE † a taking to one’s bed through illness …1647
– EPIZOOTIC a human illness or ailment …c1883 Amer. dial.
– EVIL an ill, complaint, illness; a swelling on the neck or other local affliction …1683 Eng. dial.
– FAKING counterfeiting illness …M19 UK prison sl.
– GANDIVEESE a trifling or imaginary illness, esp. one used as an excuse for shirking work …1900 Sc.
– GASTRO gastroenteritis …1975 Aust. sl.
– GOLLYWOBBLES a stomach-ache; a general feeling of discomfort or illness; diarrhoea …1942 Amer. sl.
– GREEK BACK a supposedly fake illness or incapacity, used to justify malingering, apparently by Italians, Greeks, Yugoslavs and others seen as lazier than ‘White’ Australians …1970s Aust. sl.
– GROUTIES, THE a general feeling of discomfort or illness; bad feelings …1969 Amer. dial.
– HEART-FEVER an illness or disease …1886 N. Ireland 
– HUMDUDGEON an imaginary illness; hypochondria …1785
– ILL illness, pain; disease; difficulty …1813 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– ILLING †* a being or becoming ill; illness …1719
– INWARD TROUBLE an internal disease or illness …1787 Sc.
– JIGGERS feelings of uneasiness, anxiety, apprehension, or nervousness; general feelings of discomfort, illness, or vexation …1966 Amer. dial.
– JIMJAMS feelings of uneasiness, anxiety, apprehension, or nervousness; general feelings of discomfort, illness, or vexation …1896 Amer. dial.
– KWAAL an illness; a complaint …1960s S. Afr. sl.
– LAG-FEVER a term of ridicule applied to men who, being under sentence of transportation, pretend illness to avoid being sent from jail to the hulks …1811
– LANGUOR † disease, sickness, illness …a1300
– MEAGRIES. miseries, ills …1885 Sc.
– MEDITERRANEAN BACK a supposedly fake illness or incapacity, used to justify malingering, apparently by Italians, Greeks, Yugoslavs and others seen as lazier than ‘White’ Australians …1970s Aust. sl.
– MISERIES a general feeling of discomfort or illness …1965 Amer. dial.
– MOLLYCODDLES an imaginary disease or illness …1969 Amer. dial.
– MOLLYGRUBS, MULLIGRUBS a condition of despondency or ill temper; sulkiness, sullenness, the blues; a vague or imaginary illness …1806 Amer. dial.
– MONDAYITIS a fictitious illness due to a reluctance to return to work after the weekend …1908 colloq.
– MONDAY MORNING HEADACHE an imaginary illness used as an excuse to avoid work or school …1967 Amer. dial.
– MONDAY MORNING SICKNESS an imaginary illness used as an excuse to avoid work or school …1967 Amer. dial.
– MONDAY SICKNESS an imaginary illness used as an excuse to avoid work or school …1967 Amer. dial.
– MUFF-UPS an imaginary or pretended illness …1954 Amer. dial.
– OFFSET a hindrance, delay; a setback, anything that causes delay; an illness; the time wasted by any hindrance …1865 Sc.
– ONCOME an illness the cause of which is unknown; a mysterious disease …1819 Sc.
– ONSET an attack of disease of unknown origin; a sharp attack of illness …1818 Sc.
– PANTOD a vague or undefined illness; an imaginary illness; a fit; a violent pain …1901 Amer. dial.
– PIP, THE illness or malaise in humans …a1425 humorous usage
– POLLYMARBLES collywobbles; depression or nervousness; some imaginary or undefined illness …1971 Amer. dial.
– QUEER STREET an imaginary street where people in difficulties are supposed to reside; hence, any difficulty, fix, or trouble, bad circumstances, debt, illness, etc. …1837 sl.
– SCHOOL-BELL FEVER an illness feigned to avoid having to go to school …1967 Amer. dial.
– SCHOOL-BUS CRAMPS an illness feigned to avoid having to go to school …1967 Amer. dial.
– SCHOOL-BUS FEVER an illness feigned to avoid having to go to school …1967 Amer. dial.
– SHOWER an attack of physical or emotional suffering; a bout of illness; a spasm of pain …a1300 Sc.
– SICK † a disease or illness …a1300 obs.
– SICKIE a feigned illness cited as grounds for missing work …1953 Aust. sl.
– SICKY a feigned illness cited as grounds for missing work …1953 Aust. sl.
– SIEGE a prolonged period of distress, esp. from an illness …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– SNICK-UP an indefinable illness, not easily cured; a slight ailment …1830 Eng. dial.
– TAKING † a seizure or attack of disease; a stroke or palsy or the like; an attack of illness; a sudden seizure of pain; a sore, a swelling also, enchantment …1533 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– TAKING-DISEASE an infectious illness …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TARROW a slight illness, an indisposition …1866 Sc.
– TURN a sudden feeling of illness …1775 sl.
– WAFF a slight attack or ‘touch; of illness, esp. of cold …1808 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– WALKING SICKNESS an illness in which the person it still able to get about and is not confined to bed …1846
– WEARY WILLIES, THE general feelings of physical discomfort or illness, esp. delirium tremens …1965 Amer. dial.
– WHIM-WHAMS general feelings of discomfort, illness, or vexation …1966 Amer. dial.
– WHISKEY-ROT any unspecified illness …1970 US sl.
– WILLIES, THE feelings of physical discomfort or illness, esp. delirium tremens …1905 Amer. dial.
– WIM-WAMS general feelings of discomfort, illness, or vexation …1966 Amer. dial.
– WOG a germ that causes an illness …1941 Aust. sl.
– WOOLLIES, THE general feelings of physical discomfort or illness …1965 Amer. dial.
ill, illness – person
COT-CASE a very ill, highly intoxicated, or bedridden person …1897
– DECUMBENT † one lying ill in bed …1641 
– OLD SOLDIER a deceitful person; one who shams illness …1874 Eng. dial.
– SICK † a person suffering from illness …c888
– SICKMAN † a man who is ill …c1340
ill, illness – verbs 
– ABRAM to malinger, to fake illness …M19 sl.
– ACT POSSUM † to feign; to pretend to be ill or dead …1844 US sl.
– AIL ALONG to be or seem to be slightly ill …1933 Amer. dial.
– AIL AROUND to be or seem to be slightly ill …1933 Amer. dial.
– AILD to make mildly ill; to trouble or upset …1903 Amer. dial.
– BACKEN to get worse, to have a relapse in illness …1891 Eng. dial.
– BAFF to struggle, either against illness or weather …Bk1898 Sc.
– BAG IT to feign illness in order to avoid one’s responsibilities …1967 Amer. dial.
– BE TAKEN BAD to have fallen ill …M19 sl.
– BE TOOK BAD to have fallen ill …M19 sl.
– BLUFF to feign illness …1965 Amer. dial.
– BUCKEYE to make or become ill …1868 Amer. dial.
– COME THE POSSUM OVER A PERSON † to feign; to pretend to be ill or dead …1844 US sl.
– CRACK ON to pretend, esp. to pretend to be ill or hurt …1880s sl. ? orig, military
– ENJOY POOR HEALTH to be ill …1848 Amer. dial.
– FAIL UP to decline in health; to fall ill …1914 Amer. dial.
– FAIRRIE to collapse in an exhausted condition or from sudden illness …19C Sc.
– FALL † to be taken ill of a disease …1538
– FEEL LIKE THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER to have a general feeling of discomfort or illness …1966 Amer. dial.
– GET ONE’S HEAD-GEAR to have an illness, to get one’s death-blow, to be mortally injured …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– GRUNT to be ill or ailing …1893 Amer. dial.
– GRUNT AROUND to be ill or ailing …1960 Amer. dial.
– HAVE ONE FOOT ON A BANANA PEEL to be severely ill or very old, slipping toward death …1965 Amer. dial.
– HAVE ONE FOOT ON A BANANA PEEL AND THE OTHER IN A GRAVE to be severely ill or very old, slipping toward death …1965 Amer. dial.
– HAVE ONE’S FACE ONE’S WORST LIMB to look ill …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– KECKLE-UP to show signs of renewed interest or spirit; to brighten or perk up; to recover from illness or sadness …1866 Sc.
– LINGER to ail, to have a continuing illness …1859 Amer. dial.
– LINGER ON to ail, to have a continuing illness …1917 Amer. dial.
– MEGGAR to improve, to get better; to recover from an illness, etc.; to get over an illness …1856 Eng. dial.
– MUSTER ONE’S BAG to be ill …L19 Brit. nautical sl., esp. Royal Navy
– PATIATE †* to suffer from an illness or disability …1653 
– PEG OUT to get ill; to die …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– PLAY POSSUM to feign; to pretend to be ill or dead …1844 US sl.
– PLAY THE OLD SOLDIER to malinger; to feign illness; to practice deception …1713 military sl.
– QUAIL to languish; to fall ill; to faint; to have a sinking sensation in the stomach …1790 Eng. dial.
– QUEAL † to languish; to fail in any way; to fall ill; to faint; to have a sinking sensation in the stomach …1515 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– SALIVATE to make severely or fatally ill …1984 Amer. dial.
– SICK † to suffer illness; to fall ill, to sicken …a1150
– SICKLE † to be or fall ill, to sicken …c1000
– TAKE DOWN to reduce in health; to emaciate; to lay low in sickness; to become sick or ill …1822 Sc. & Amer. dial.
– TAPISH to waste or pine away; to begin to be mortally ill …1875 Eng. dial.
– TAPPISH to waste or pine away; to begin to be mortally ill …1875 Eng. dial.
– TAVE to labour under a disease; to recover from a very severe illness …1875 Sc.
 
ILL-ADVISED – adjectives
– ILL-DONE wrong, mischievous, ill-advised …1894 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– ILL-GUIDED ill-treated; ill-advised …1867 Sc.
 
ILL AT EASE – adjectives
– WINDY nervous; ill at ease …1916 sl.
 
ILL-BEHAVED – adjectives
– BEDLAM belonging to a madhouse; mad, wild, ill-behaved, foolish …a1535
– MALVERISH badly behaved, mischievous, bad-mannered …1880 Sc.
– OOBIT a ragged, shaggy, or unkempt, hairy person; an uncouth sort of person; an ill-behaved youngster; an insignificant rascal …1856 Sc.
– RAGMATICAL †* wild, rowdy, ill-behaved, riotous …1742
​- ONKED uncouth, awkward, shy, ill-behaved; untidy; ugly; unpleasant, uncomfortable, inconvenient …1783 Eng. dial.
– UNKED uncouth, awkward, shy, ill-behaved; untidy; ugly; unpleasant, uncomfortable, inconvenient …1783 Eng. dial.
– UNKID uncouth, awkward, shy, ill-behaved; untidy; ugly; unpleasant, uncomfortable, inconvenient …1783 Eng. dial.
ill-behaved – person
– OOBIT an unkempt or uncouth sort of person; an ill-behaved youngster; an insignificant rascal …1856 Sc. 
– QUEAN a woman; a female; from early Middle English a term of disparagement or abuse; hence, a bold, impudent, or ill-behaved woman; a jade, a hussy; a harlot, a strumpet, esp. in 16th-17th centuries …a1000 
– RAKESHAME * one who covers himself with shame; an ill-behaved, disorderly, or dissolute fellow …1599
– RAMP † a bold, vulgar, ill-behaved woman or girl: a high-spirited, independent woman, usually synonymous with a prostitute …a1450
– RAMPANT †* a bold, vulgar, ill-behaved woman or girl; an impudent female …1671
– RANTIPOLE * a rude, romping boy or girl; a wild, ill-behaved or reckless person; a scold, a termagant, a shrew; a dissolute person …a1700
– RAPPOCK an ill-behaved person …c1350 N. Eng. dial.
– TAISTREL, TAISTRILL an ill-mannered, ill-behaved, or mischievous boy; one given to playing pranks …Bk1892 Eng. dial.
– TASSET an ill-behaved woman …Bk1855 Eng. dial.
– YARD DOG an ill-dressed, badly behaved person …1930s US Black sl.
– YOUNG HEMP a young scoundrel; an ill-behaved young man or boy; an 18th century juvenile delinquent …1785 sl.
 
ILL-BEHAVING – adjectives
– MALEGERENT †* ill-behaving, unthrifty, improvident …1727
 
ILL-BODING – adjectives
– BYSENING † ill-boding, portentous; monstrous; frightful …c1375
 
ILL-BRED – adjectives
– CADDISH offensively ill-bred; the opposite of gentlemanly …1868 colloq.
– CARTERLY † clownish, boorish, rude, ill-bred …1519
– COMMON AS PIG TRACKS vulgar, ill-bred …1952 Amer. dial.
– GROBIAN slovenly, ill-bred, rude, coarse …1654
– HAIRY ill-bred, bad-mannered …1900s sl.
– HAIRY AT THE HEEL said of an ill-bred person; deficient in breeding or manners …1899
– LEWD † foolish, unskilful, bungling; ill-bred, ill-mannered …c1380
– MENSELESS unmannerly, rude, ill-bred; uncultured, unpolished …1811 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– RAG-MANNERED † rude, vulgar, coarse; of low, ill-bred behaviour; aggressively uncouth; very badly mannered …1698 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– UNBRED not imbued with good manners; unmannerly, ill-bred …1622
ill-bred – nouns
– RAG-MANNERS † low, ill-bred behaviour …1731
ill-bred – person 
– CAD (offensive) one who behaves dishonourably or who lacks the instincts of a gentleman; a low, vulgar, ill-mannered fellow; a base, vile person; an ill-bred person; an upper-class rogue; a blackguard; a term of abuse …1838 colloq.
– CALICOT a ‘cad’; an ill-bred, vulgar fellow …c1885 sl.
– CHARRO an ill-bred, coarse person; a churl …1939 Amer. dial.
– CLINCHPOOP † a term of contempt for one considered wanting in gentlemanly breeding; a vulgar, ill-bred fellow; an oaf; a dunce; a lout, a clown …1568
– GROBIAN a slovenly, ill-bred or coarse fellow; a rude lout, a boor …1621
– MOLLY-HAWN a hoyden; a boisterous, noisy girl; a romp; a rude or ill-bred girl or woman …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– PIGTRACKS a vulgar, ill-bred person …1942 Amer. dial.
– WARAHOON a noisy ill-bred person …1976 W. Indies
– YAP a low or ill-bred person …Bk1914 Amer. dial.
 
ILL-COLOURED – adjectives
– RIACH † dun, ill-coloured …1742 Sc.
 
ILL-CONDITIONED – adjectives
– ILL-CLEPPED ill-conditioned, surly, churlish …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– ILL-CURPONED ill-conditioned, surly, churlish …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– ILL-FARRANT ugly; ill-conditioned …1839 Eng. dial.
– ILL-MITE ill-conditioned, surly, churlish …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– ILL-PEGGED ill-conditioned, surly, churlish …1875 Eng. dial.
– ILL-PICTURED ill-conditioned, surly, churlish …Bk1905 Sc.
– ILL-SET ill-conditioned, surly, churlish …1774 Sc.
– ILL-THRIVEN ill-conditioned, surly, churlish …1843
– ILL-THRODDEN ill-conditioned, surly, churlish …1843 Eng. dial.
– LEWD † of persons, their actions, etc.: bad, vile, evil, wicked, base; unprincipled, ill-conditioned; good-for-nothing; worthless …c1386
– TAUPIE foolish, awkward, slovenly, ill-conditioned; foolishly thoughtless …1706 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– TAUPY foolish, awkward, slovenly, ill-conditioned; tawdry …1823 Sc.
– TAWPIE foolish, awkward, slovenly, ill-conditioned, foolishly thoughtless; tawdry …1706 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– TAWPY foolish, awkward, slovenly, ill-conditioned; tawdry …1823 Sc.
– YILLYART stubborn; ill-conditioned …1897 Sc.
ill-conditioned – person
– AUGHT an obstinate, ill-conditioned child …1768 Sc.
– BAD AUGHT an obstinate, ill-conditioned child …1825 Sc.
– DANDLES an ill-conditioned, mismanaging female …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– HERLE a mischievous dwarf; an ill-conditioned child …1825 Sc.
– TAISTRIL(L) a vicious, ill-conditioned person; a passionate, violent, or sour-tempered person; a churl …Bk1896 Eng. dial.
– TEASTRIL a vicious, ill-conditioned person; a crabbed, peevish fellow …Bk1869 Eng. dial.
– URF, URPH a stunted, ill-grown, and ill-conditioned person; a dirty, insignificant person, esp. applied to children; a dwarfish person …1838 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– WARF a stunted, ill-grown, and ill-conditioned person; a puny, contemptible person; a dirty, insignificant person, esp. applied to children; a dwarfish person …1818 Sc.
– WURF – a stunted, ill-grown, and ill-conditioned person; a dirty, insignificant person, esp. applied to children; a dwarfish person …1838 Sc. 
 
ILL-CONDUCTED – person
– BARGHEST a term of reproach or abuse; one who is unsightly in appearance; a noisy or ill-conducted person …1863 Eng. dial.
 
ILL-CONSIDERED – adjectives
– HALF-COCK ill-considered; inferior …2002 UK sl.
– UNTHOUGHTED thoughtless, ill-considered …a1845 Amer. dial.
 
ILL-CONSTRUCTED – nouns
– BALLY-MUCK an ill-constructed thing …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
 
ILL-CONTRIVED – adjectives
– CAM-MANART ill-contrived, awkward …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
 
ILL-DESIGNED – adjectives
– NEITHER MAKE NOR SHAPE out of proportion, ill-designed or fashioned …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
ILL-DEVELOPED – adjectives
– WAN-THRIVEN ill-developed, stunted in growth …1508 Sc.
 
ILL-DISPOSED – adjectives
– ILL-HEARTED having an ill heart, ill-disposed, malicious …a1617 
– ILL-THRIVEN peevish, ill-disposed …1843
– ILL-TURNED † having an evil turn of mind; ill-disposed …a1637
– ILL-WILLY cherishing ill will; malevolent, malignant, ill-disposed …a1500 chiefly Sc.
 
ILL-DOING – adjectives
– MALEFACTORY * ill-doing; criminal …1871
 
ILL-DRESSED see DRESSED