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
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
For example: six novels in, she switches agent, despite realising immediately that, personally, she and her new representative are "ill-assorted".
From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2010
This perfectly ill-assorted trio sets out in the Orca, Quint's leaky craft, to bring the marauding great white to his reward.
From Time Magazine Archive
He fell in love with a nabob’s daughter, and married her according to the national customs and ceremonies; but his ill-assorted match did not long prosper.
From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Cobbold, Richard
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