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

This circumstance, occurring thus early in their intercourse, might have proved to each of the parties in this ill-sorted alliance, how difficult it was for them to remain long and creditably united.

From Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01 by Thomas Moore

Even these charms faded under the sufferings attendant on an ill-sorted match.

From Waverley Novels — Volume 12 by Sir Walter Scott

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

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