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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Badly matched.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Ill-assorted; ill-arranged; hence, ill-matched; ill-paired: as, an ill-sorted couple.
  • Ill-suited; ill-satisfied.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective not well matched.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective not easy to combine harmoniously

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Examples

  • The musings of the left today consist of an ill-sorted congeries of hopelessly inconsistent views much like old-line Anglican theology.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Evil of Leon Trotsky Revisited 2009

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

    My Aunt Margaret's Mirror 2008

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

    My Aunt Margaret's Mirror 2008

  • And by the time the ill-sorted cars cross the finish line near the U.S.

    Putting A Charge Back Into Driving 2008

  • 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.

    The Small House at Allington 2004

  • Madame Voss was certainly nearly twenty years younger than her husband, and yet the pair did not look to be ill-sorted.

    The Golden Lion of Granpere 2004

  • 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.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • Then I put my hands to my head where that whirling of ill-timed, ill-sorted odds and ends of learning started such a pain as I had felt upon my first coming to the Vupsall camp.

    Sorceress of the Witch World Norton, Andre 1968

  • 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.

    Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin

  • "And certainly," adds his biographer, "I have seen a party composed of materials as ill-sorted as could possibly be imagined, drawn out and attracted together, till at last you would believe they had been born for each other."

    Conversation What to Say and How to Say it Mary Greer Conklin

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