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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

The classes themselves are ill-sorted and often troublesome, and are usually unwieldy by reason of their size.

They walked along in silence, the most ill-sorted pair that you might hope to find in all that higgledy-piggledy city.

Indeed, he is a crowd—a crowd of alien and ill-sorted ancestors.

Before speaking further on it, however, I must say what I mean by Fetish, for “the word of late has got ill sorted.”

She sobbed aloud—complained one while, entreated another; and then muttered over some ill–sorted phrases from the Scripture.

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