Scrofulous
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: of, related to, or suffering from scrofula morally degenerate; corrupt (e.g. a scrofulous politician)
Ill
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Suffering from a disease.Having an urge to vomit.Bad, often connoting abuse or neglect.Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way. [This sense sometimes declines in AAVE as ill, comparative iller, superlative illest.]Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
Part of speech: adverb
Definition: Badly; very incompletely. Often hyphenated to form an adjectival phrase.Scarcely.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.Harm or injury.Evil; moral wrongfulness.A physical ailment; an illness.Unfavorable remarks or opinions.PCP.
Example sentence: When America's early pioneers first turned their eyes toward the West, they did not demand that somebody take care of them if they got ill or got old. They did not demand maximum pay for minimum work, and even pay for no work at all.