Definitions
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. wanting certain things; unsatisfied; unwell; unhappy; cross. See under Sort, n.
- n. (Print.) with some letters or sorts of type deficient or exhausted in the case or font; hence, colloquially, out of order; ill; vexed; disturbed.
Examples
“a letter from her, ma'am, myself, but that I was rather out of sorts with her; for happening to meet her, the day as you went, walking on them Pantiles, with some of her quality binding, when I was not dressed out quite in my best becomes, she made as if she did not know me.”
“… Margaret Thatcher seems to be out of sorts with the men both at NATO and the Economic Summit.”
“Now Kohokumu was a bore, and I was squeamishly out of sorts with him for his volubleness, but I could not help admiring him as watched him go down.”
“I am very tired this evening, I have had a fatigueing day; the children have been out of sorts this whole week; Eva was tired and excited by her visit to Limerick and has scarcely recovered from it, while Loring was unfitted for study by his holiday.”
“She had seemed out of sorts for the past couple of days, but when I had mentioned this to Lea, she dismissed it as holiday grumps.”
“Apparently not in the least tired or out of sorts because of the journey, he sat at his ease yarning with two men going to Cardwell.”
“A realization that put him severely out of sorts and sent him with Poplicola, the brothers Decidius Saxa, and Dellius to inspect the priest-kingdom of Ma at Comana, not far distant from Eusebeia Mazaca.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘out of sorts’.
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phrases
ironic detachment, get one's leg over, run wild, mad as a box of f..., keep your chin up, baker's dozen, fire a shot in anger, have a field day, go over with a fi..., as the crow flies, leap of faith, learn one's lesson and 224 more...
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GCI
spinster, maiden, happy-go-lucky, homonym, ill-at-ease, saw red, out of sorts, hot under the collar, taken aback, pen-names, alias, shoelaces and 378 more...
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miscellanea
antimacassar, snootful, sessile, glagolitic, marrowsky, farrago, keel, calumny, rheum, talisman, tally, awry and 508 more...
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emiliana's list
Words I have come across, words that have stuck with me over time, words that I am not familiar with but suddenly see or hear in different contexts that drive me crazy because I can't wrap my littl...
tricky, trickily, out of sorts, sprachgefuhl, rodomontade, mordant, perusing, filicide, curiosity, latent, evocation, unwarranted and 3 more...
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select phrases
i was the shadow ..., all adam's apple ..., con favor de dios, picnic, lightning, trading futures, the vasty deep, i had not thought..., slack bastard, as beautiful as t..., french press, above suspicion, above reproach and 18 more...
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idioms
don't shoot the m..., blood from a turnip, a watched pot nev..., underfoot, to each his own, cut to the chase, cut the mustard, grand purpose, pass the buck, throw under the bus, scapegoat, strike a chord and 27 more...
Tweets
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mollusque Assorted, I hope. Aug 25, 2009
bilby *opens carton of sorts* Aug 25, 2009
mollusque Time to restock. Aug 20, 2009