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

They walked along in silence, the most ill-sorted pair that you might hope to find in all that higgledy-piggledy city.

From Cheerful—By Request by Ferber, Edna

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

He thought it to be unseasonable, ill-judged, and ill-sorted with the circumstances of all the parties.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

Very young she was not,—having reached some years of her life in advance of thirty; but then, neither was the Honourable George very young; and in this respect the two were not ill-sorted.

From The Small House at Allington by Trollope, Anthony