Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Leading a disreputable or wicked life.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Leading a wicked life.
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Examples
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The iconic Yenko name is back, courtesy of General Marketing Capital Inc., whose owner, Jeff Leonard, spent an ill-lived childhood hanging around Detroit's Woodward Avenue, where the Big Three would have "unofficial (and late night) test sessions" for their latest musclecars.
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Get rid of them, the scandalous, envious, ill-lived rascals.
The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti John Addington Symonds 1866
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