ill-got, a.
(ˈɪlˈgɒt: see ill- III)
[f. ill adv. + got, pa. pple. of get v.]
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| 1593 Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, iii. ii. 46 Things ill got had ever bad success. 1693 J. Dryden, jun. in Dryden's Juvenal xiv. (1697) 352 The Fabled Dragon never guarded more The Golden Fleece, than he his ill-got Store. 1725 Pope Odyss. xiv. 107 Of their ill-got spoils possess'd. 1753 A. Murphy Gray's-Inn Jrnl. No. 43 ¶4 According to the old Proverb, Ill got, Ill gone. 1848 J. A. Carlyle tr. Dante's Inferno xix, Keep well the ill-got money. |