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ill-lighted
adjective as in dark
Example Sentences
Henry James, visiting the painting in Venice, wrote that it “unites the most masterly finish with a kind of universal largeness of feeling,” but griped in 1882 that at the Schiavoni “the pictures are out of sight and ill-lighted, the custodian is rapacious, the visitors are mutually intolerable.”
Taxing obstacles and thwarting dead-ends lurk around every ill-lighted corner.
Cars frequently collide with ill-lighted buggies, usually resulting in damage to the buggies and sometimes the horses.
Cars frequently collide with ill-lighted buggies, usually resulting in damage to the buggies and sometimes the horses.
As the dark nights of the late autumn came on, the fears of the timid and nervous were doubled, and persons who lived in lonely places, or in the ill-lighted parts of towns, became afraid to leave their houses after nightfall.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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