Meanings
adjectiveill-seen (not comparable)
- archaicnot comparableNot well thought of; having a bad reputation.
I said it seemed that Ebenezer was ill-seen in the country.
1895, Robert Louis Stevenson, “What befell at the Queen's Ferry”, in Kidnapped
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