His confidence proved ill-founded at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.

And both my fear and my hope proved ill-founded.

Like Johnson, his great-grandfather was a journalist who went into government, a move that proved ill-fated.

Nor had her trepidation proved ill founded.

All my choices have proved ill.

And that has proved ill; for plainly some news reached him, and I was not at hand to help.

But the buying proved ill-timed.

But the suggestion proved ill chosen, at least so far as it involved a hope of keeping George from the newspapers.