Ill and Poor

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Ill adjective - Falling short of a standard.

Usage example: such ill behavior will not be tolerated

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Poor is a synonym for ill in bad topic. In some cases you can use "Poor" instead an adjective "Ill", when it comes to topics like property.

Nearby Word: illness

Poor adjective - Falling short of a standard.

Usage example: a pretty poor musician, even for a garage band

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Ill is a synonym for poor in bad topic. You can use "Ill" instead an adjective "Poor".

Nearby Words: poorly, poorness

Instead of a poor and ill-disciplined military protecting a rich and talented society, you have a rich and talented military protecting an increasingly poor and ill-disciplined society.

Source: Literature / The Forever War
In Hajime no Ippo, Alexander Volg Zangief comes to Japan to earn money from professional boxing and help his ill and poor mother in Russia.

Source: Healthcare Motivation
Works where research was so poor or ill-considered, author politics so prevalent, Butterflies so ignored, details (logistics, politics, etc.) so overlooked, often purposefully, that there's no way anyone with even a passing familiarity with the history can take it seriously.

Source: Sliding Scale of Alternate History Plausibility

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