ill-sorted

[ il-sawr-tid ]

adjective

1. badly matched; poorly arranged.

ill-sorted

adjective

1. badly arranged or matched; ill-assorted

Word History and Origins

Origin of ill-sorted¹

First recorded in 1685–95

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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