Illy

It will astonish not a few to learn that there is no such word as illy . The form of the adverb, as well as of the adjective and the noun, is ill . A thing is ill formed, or ill done, or ill made, or ill constructed, or ill put together. " Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay."—Goldsmith. Immodest. This adjective and its synonyms, indecent and indelicate , are often used without proper discrimination being made in their respective meanings. Indecency and immodesty are opposed to morality: the former in externals, as dre , words, and looks; the latter in conduct and disposition. " Indecency ," says Crabb, "may be a partial, immodesty is a positive and entire breach of the moral law. Indecency is le than immodesty , but more than indelicacy ." It is indecent for a man to marry again very soon after the death of his wife. It is indelicate for any one to obtrude himself upon another's retirement. It is indecent for women to expose their persons as do some whom we can not call immodest . "Immodest words admit of no defense, For want of decency is want of sense." —Earl of Roscommon.