ill-willing

comparative more ill-willing · superlative most ill-willing · alternative ill willing

1. Having or displaying malevolence or ill-will.

   Should a person be suffering from the ill-willing attention of one of the fairy people a Fairy Doctor must be found.

   2016, Morgan Daimler, Fairycraft: Following The Path Of Fairy Witchcraft

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   I don't know how— but it will make me uneasy, if I am to make up my accounts to you: for so well known is your love to us, that though you would no more do in unjust thing, than, by God's grace, we should desire you; yet this same ill-willing world might think it was like making up accounts to one's self.

   1810, The authoress, by the author of 'Rachel', page 17

   Some quaint device or rare conceit of her nigh frozen Robin Redbreast; praying to be once more cherished from the cold blasts of an ill-willing world, in the warm bosom of Royal favour.

   1857, Thomas of Swarraton, The Noble Traytour, page 332

   But then neither, obviously, is the simple antithesis of an ill-willing delinquency sufficient, for the machinery that thrives on the good will of individuals easily privatises that into a set of individual aberrations—[…]

   1981, Peter Botsman, Chris Burns, Peter J. Hutchings, The Foreign Bodies Papers, page 81

   As has been illustrated by numerous scientific articles over the last 30 years, there is almost always a possibility for an ill-willing intruder to re-identify (part of) anonymised microdata, […]

   2001, Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe