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ill-assorted

British  

adjective

  1. badly matched; incompatible

"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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But right now, this emphasis on looking remains somewhat rhetorical in congested or ill-assorted galleries where you can't properly see all the art on display.

From The Guardian ● May 18, 2013

They are dressed, by Miranda Hoffman, in whimsically ill-assorted attire that suggests dutiful foraging in amateur theatricals costume trunks as well as the sales racks at Urban Outfitters.

From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2011

For example: six novels in, she switches agent, despite realising immediately that, personally, she and her new representative are "ill-assorted".

From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2010

Their mission was dangerous but not dashing, and their ill-assorted officers were drawn together in a curiously defiant camaraderie of the mocked.

From Time Magazine Archive

Amongst other exiles in Brussels were the ill-assorted couple Émile de Girardin and General Lamoricière.

From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by G. Barnett Smith

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