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

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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

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

From Waverley Novels — Volume 12 by Sir Walter Scott

And so the four ill-sorted people sat each at a different side of the table, with a long stretch of gold-decked and flower-laden cloth between them.

From Sarah's School Friend by May Baldwin

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

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 by Various

But I am not a professor with a mind like a warehouse, rich with the spoils of time, but a mere peddler, conscious of the janglings of an ill-sorted, ill-packed knapsack of unconsidered trifles.

From Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

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