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ill-sorted

[ il-sawr-tid ]

adjective

  1. badly matched; poorly arranged.


ill-sorted

adjective

  1. badly arranged or matched; ill-assorted
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ill-sorted1

First recorded in 1685–95
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Example Sentences

Playing marriage counselor to the zebra / human couple and other ill-sorted pairs, we can recognize at least six groups of reasons for failed domestication.

With a heavier heart than that with which she reached it, Margaret leaves the bench and its ill-sorted occupants.

I can score each knave," quoth the Piper, "in Life's ill-sorted school, For they take and they take their greed to slake, But I am no match for the Fool!

As Doll Tearsheet says in the second part of “King Henry IV”: “These villains will make the word as odious as the word ‘occupy’; which was an excellent good word before it was ill-sorted.”

Can words more ill-sorted, more shocking be put together? 

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