ill-seen

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English

Adjective

ill-seen (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Not well thought of; having a bad reputation.
    • 1895, Robert Louis Stevenson, “What befell at the Queen's Ferry”, in Kidnapped:
      I said it seemed that Ebenezer was ill-seen in the country.