ill-sorted en · ADJ
Meanings
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Badly matched or unmatched; ill-suited.
He was a morose man, with the extremely ill-sorted name of Lovegood, and when Rita discovered herself as an emissary of Mrs Dibble's, he worked himself into a temper at once. "I don't want no more dealings with that old trout."
1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 48:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more ill-sorted | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most ill-sorted | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |