ill-sorted

American  

[il-sawr-tid] / ˈɪlˈsɔr tɪd /

adjective

1. badly matched; poorly arranged.

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ill-sorted British  

adjective

1. badly arranged or matched; ill-assorted

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Etymology

Origin of ill-sorted

First recorded in 1685–95

Example Sentences

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ill-sorted

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.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

There was plenty enough, but the dishes were ill-sorted; whole pyramids of sweetmeats, for boys and women; but little of solid meat, for men.

From The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by John Dryden

Such ill-sorted alliances are disastrous to both parties, and scarcely more to one than the other.

From Plain Facts for Old and Young by John Harvey Kellogg

When they dunnot agree, for that their tempers is ill-sorted, they has rooms o' one kind an' another in their houses, above a bit, and they can live asunders.

From Hard Times by Charles Dickens

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!

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 by Various