ill-drained

All this relaxes the first-time wanderer on these slopes, ill-prepared for the horror of what is to come further north – the ill-drained, rushy moor between Hayes farm and Spout farm, a hellish concoction of tussock-islands surrounded by standing, peaty water.

Country diary: Staffordshire Moorlands Roger Redfern 2010

Their houses must be ill-drained, ill - lighted, ill-ventilated.

Autobiography and Selected Essays 2003

Its land was unproductive, ill-drained, and poor, and yet it possessed little or none of the beauty which tourists go to see.

Can You Forgive Her? 1993

The castle yard was muddy, and the only semblance of a garden was a little fenced area near the stables, which resembled a pigsty; the stench of the privies that emptied just over the walls permeated the air; and fevers and pestilence rose with the vapours from the swampy, ill-drained marshes at the foot of the hill.

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

The castle yard was muddy, and the only semblance of a garden was a little fenced area near the stables, which resembled a pigsty; the stench of the privies that emptied just over the walls permeated the air; and fevers and pestilence rose with the vapours from the swampy, ill-drained marshes at the foot of the hill.

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

Exposure in the ill-drained fields round Helpstone brought on an attack of tertiary ague, from which the boy had scarcely rallied when he was again sent into the fields.

Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" J. L. Cherry

They were found to cure intermittent fevers, such as used to prevail in marshy or ill-drained lands much more commonly than now in

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

We cannot dwell in an ill-ventilated and ill-drained house without running the risk of having our own constitution lowered.

Life and Conduct J. Cameron Lees

If it is craw-fishy, or soil that is ill-drained or won't carry ordinary crops, I'd say keep off of it, but if it will bear ordinary crops it's all right; in some cases where the soil is very rich the plant does not need to go down into that soil anything like the depth it would in a poor soil.

Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912

In winter they must be covered by about six inches of litter; but in cold and ill-drained soils it will be safer to take the roots up during October, keeping these in a dry situation until the following spring.

Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various