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Examples
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I like this because it isn't ill-wishing, and it's too specific to be a euphemism for "go to hell."
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway the_overqual 2010
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I like this because it isn't ill-wishing, and it's too specific to be a euphemism for "go to hell."
mrissa: fake swears mrissa 2010
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I do not pray against a live birth for that would be ill-wishing, and also the sin of envy; but my lack of enthusiasm in the prayers will be understood, I am sure, by Our Lady, who is Queen of Heaven and will understand all about inheritance and how difficult it is to be an heir to the throne but a girl.
The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009
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OK for a first one but a bit paltry on the invective and ill-wishing.
My First 'Hate' Email: A 'Chiropractic Doctor' Writes Jack of Kent 2009
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I do not pray against a live birth for that would be ill-wishing, and also the sin of envy; but my lack of enthusiasm in the prayers will be understood, I am sure, by Our Lady, who is Queen of Heaven and will understand all about inheritance and how difficult it is to be an heir to the throne but a girl.
The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009
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Maybe demi-literate, ill-wishing emails are written in vingunlo?
My First 'Hate' Email: A 'Chiropractic Doctor' Writes Jack of Kent 2009
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Last week, several commentators roundly condemned Cheney's most recent remarks as a macabre exercise in domestic fear mongering, a not-so-subtle ill-wishing for calamity to be visited upon the body politic.
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I do not pray against a live birth for that would be ill-wishing, and also the sin of envy; but my lack of enthusiasm in the prayers will be understood, I am sure, by Our Lady, who is Queen of Heaven and will understand all about inheritance and how difficult it is to be an heir to the throne but a girl.
The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009
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The CNET story asked what the consequences might be if Google user info fell into the hands of government investigators, ill-wishing hackers -- even a Google employee violating company privacy practices.
Boing Boing 2005
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The kind of rage that is so intense that I can barely begin to write anything that isn't laced with profanity and the kind of ill-wishing that would land me on a FBI watch list.
freakophilosophy 2006
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