ill-assorted
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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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
While Dee's one-liners are sharply funny, the dialogue between the ill-assorted group becomes mired in a schematic treatment of big issues – feminism, religion, class tensions – that keeps breaking through the banter.
From The Guardian • Oct. 29, 2012
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
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
In youth we love and enjoy the most ill-assorted friends, perhaps more than, in old age, the best-assorted.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas
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