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ill-sorted en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. 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:

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more ill-sorted Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most ill-sorted Degree=Sup lexicographic