ill-sorted
badly matched; poorly arranged.
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How to use ill-sorted in a sentence
The classes themselves are ill-sorted and often troublesome, and are usually unwieldy by reason of their size.
They walked along in silence, the most ill-sorted pair that you might hope to find in all that higgledy-piggledy city.
Cheerful--By Request | Edna FerberIndeed, he is a crowd—a crowd of alien and ill-sorted ancestors.
Not Guilty | Robert BlatchfordBefore speaking further on it, however, I must say what I mean by Fetish, for “the word of late has got ill sorted.”
West African studies | Mary Henrietta KingsleyShe sobbed aloud—complained one while, entreated another; and then muttered over some ill–sorted phrases from the Scripture.
British Dictionary definitions for ill-sorted
badly arranged or matched; ill-assorted
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