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Meanings of disjointed in English

Lacking orderly continuity.

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Separated at the joint.

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Disjointed.

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Usage of disjointed in English
1
The stone steps are disjointed; the bell-cord is rotten; the gutter-spouts broken.
La Grande Breteche
2
Lamb said this would help end patients suffering disjointed care and support.
The Guardian
3
The best text-generating AI programs too often produce confused and disjointed prose.
Wired
4
Where France look stale and disjointed, England were fresh and relentlessly committed.
The Guardian
5
Or are we simply on a disjointed, random journey towards the inevitable?
The Irish Times
6
Eddie shrugged with his good shoulder-anoddly disjointed movement-andhanded it over.
IT
7
But in spite of his disjointed spillage of words, Libby listened intently.
In every heartbeat
8
He smiled faintly as he caught the burden of the disjointed phrases.
The Ward of King Canute: A Romance of the Danish Conquest
9
It was an hour before he had translated the following disjointed items:
The Genius
10
Strange things in their disjointed memories started acquiring names, meaningless but definite.
Quest for the well of souls
11
There the difficulty was to find a footing on the disjointed pavement.
The Emperor — Volume 03
12
The relation was somewhat disjointed, somewhat vague in parts, and occasionally incoherent.
The Slave of the Lamp
13
His limbs felt disjointed, and his mind was in darkness and confusion.
The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
14
Her impressions of him were disjointed, it had all happened so fast.
The captive
15
A cumbrous disjointed sentence, but the thought of it is clear enough.
Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus
16
Nelson takes us, seamlessly, from the everyday into a parallel, disjointed world.
The Guardian
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Disjointed through the time
Disjointed across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common