(a.) Contrary to good, in a physical sense; contrary or opposed to advantage, happiness, etc.; bad; evil; unfortunate; disagreeable; unfavorable.
(a.) Contrary to good, in a moral sense; evil; wicked; wrong; iniquitious; naughtly; bad; improper.
(a.) Sick; indisposed; unwell; diseased; disordered; as, ill of a fever.
(a.) Not according with rule, fitness, or propriety; incorrect; rude; unpolished; inelegant.
(n.) Whatever annoys or impairs happiness, or prevents success; evil of any kind; misfortune; calamity; disease; pain; as, the ills of humanity.
(n.) Whatever is contrary to good, in a moral sense; wickedness; depravity; iniquity; wrong; evil.
(adv.) In a ill manner; badly; weakly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction.
(2) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
(3) The patients should have received treatment for at least seven days and they should not be "ill".
(4) Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.
(5) Patients were chronically ill homosexual men with multiple systemic opportunistic infections.
(6) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
(7) However, survival was closely related to the severity of the illness at the time of randomization and was not altered by shunting.
(8) Confidence is the major prerequisite for a doctor to be able to help his seriously ill patient.
(9) Another important factor, however, seems to be that patients, their families, doctors and employers estimate capacity of performance on account of the specific illness, thus calling for intensified efforts toward rehabilitation.
(10) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
(11) Several dimensions of the outcome of 86 schizophrenic patients were recorded 1 year after discharge from inpatient index-treatment to complete a prospective study concerning the course of illness (rehospitalization, symptoms, employment and social contacts).
(12) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
(13) In South Africa, health risks associated with exposure to toxic waste sites need to be viewed in the context of current community health concerns, competing causes of disease and ill-health, and the relative lack of knowledge about environmental contamination and associated health effects.
(14) The move comes as a poll found that 74% of people want doctors to be allowed to help terminally ill people end their lives.
(15) The start of clinical illness was the 5th month of life.
(16) The most difficult thing I've dealt with at work is ... the terminal illness of a valued colleague.
(17) Bipolar affective illness were more frequent in the families of bipolar than unipolar probands.
(18) This paper describes the demographic, clinical, and psychosocial characteristics of a sample of chronically mentally ill clients at a large comprehensive community mental health center.
(19) Cholecystectomy provided successful treatment in three of the four patients but the fourth was too ill to undergo an operation; in general, definitive treatment is cholecystectomy, together with excision of the fistulous tract if this takes a direct path through the abdominal wall from the gallbladder, or curettage if the course is devious.
(20) Whenever you are ill and a medicine is prescribed for you and you take the medicine until balance is achieved in you and then you put that medicine down.” Farrakhan does not dismiss the doctrine of the past, but believes it is no longer appropriate for the present.
Unhealthy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A nine-year-old Scottish girl who attracted two million readers to a blog documenting her school lunches , consisting of unappealing and unhealthy dishes served up to pupils, has been forced to end the project after the council banned her from taking pictures of the food in school.
(2) Many elements of the set had been spun out of background glimpses from the film, references you'd only register after an unhealthy number of viewings.
(3) The effects of age and acclimatization in the healthy and unhealthy elderly and the very young are reviewed briefly as is also the possibility that air conditioning may have an adverse effect on acclimatization.
(4) Yesterday his comments were echoed by the assistant secretary of state for south Asia, Richard Boucher, who said there were signs that Iran was involved in "unhealthy" activities, including contacts with and supplies to the Taliban.
(5) Russell also described the Commonwealth Games as a catalyst but was realistic enough not to claim they immediately changed an area with long, deep-rooted problems, or miraculously roused a poor, generally unhealthy local population into vigorously playing sport.
(6) Conversely, the finest restorative fabrication can be markedly diminished by unhealthy, poorly maintained gingival and periodontal tissues.
(7) The study aims to establish whether recovery from myocardial infarction is the strongest or, alternatively, the only motivation toward changing unhealthy habits of living and eating and to what extent such patients and overtly healthy persons are prepared to receive advice to take measures to prevent myocardial infarction.
(8) "If children are not exposed to sophisticated ads for unhealthy foods, parents will find it easier to encourage healthy eating and the whole country will benefit."
(9) Furthermore, children living in unhealthy surroundings become heavily exposed to common bacteria when breast-feeding stops, a circumstance deemed largely responsible for "weaning diarrhea."
(10) Juan Salgado, community leader creating a model for workforce development and training among immigrant communities through a holistic approach that addresses language skills, education and other barriers to entering the workforce Beth Stevens, neuroscientist revealing the heretofore unknown role of microglial cells in neuron communication and prompting a fundamental shift in thinking about brain development in both healthy and unhealthy states.
(11) "It seems to me that we have really got to look at the environment and make it easier for people either to make the healthy choice or – what we say less often is stop undermining their efforts by thrusting the unhealthy option into their line of sight," she said.
(12) I can think of hordes of politicians who look worse and "weirder", with wet little pouty-mouths, strange shiny skin, mad glaring eyes, deathly pale demeanour, blank gaze and an unhealthy quantity of fat (I can't name them, because it's rude to make personal remarks), and I don't hear anyone calling them "weird", or mocking their looks, except for the odd bold cartoonist, but when it comes to Miliband , it's be-as-rude-as-you-like time.
(13) "There is no single solution to childhood obesity but tougher restrictions on the way unhealthy foods are marketed to children are essential," said Griffiths, a former consumer affairs minister and former deputy leader of the Commons.
(14) Every second of them was single, thus prone to an unhealthy lifestyle and improper nutrition.
(15) These results indicate an increased risk of 'unhealthy' food habits in children of less-educated parents.
(16) He still has more than a year on his contract so it’s not a point of pressure that we want to be unhealthy.
(17) But the survey found 40% of teachers believed that packed lunches were unhealthy.
(18) In this paper, the author attempts to describe, through human ecology, the theoretical origins of healthy lifestyles in people of all societies followed by an exploration of how such lifestyles can be replaced by unhealthy ones.
(19) While it seems more liberal than using legislation to clamp down on unhealthy behaviour, it is actually more pernicious.
(20) As at the five other jails in Philadelphia, inmates and advocates have accused Curran-Fromhold of overcrowding, unhealthy conditions , inadequate mental health services and repeated infractions by guards.