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Meanings of ill-chosen in English
Not elegant or graceful in expression.
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Usage of ill-chosen in English
1
Nothing had changed her mood since his uncle paid his ill-chosen visit.
2
Given that the film is quite dull, that title now looks supremely ill-chosen.
3
In form it seemed perfect-nota superfluous or an ill-chosen word.
4
I perceived that what I had said was an ill-chosen thing.
5
Reformers are apt to be pelted with epithets quite as ill-chosen.
6
I cried, now thoroughly aroused at this ill-chosen trifling with time.
7
Elections are frequent, so that ill-chosen officials may not long abuse their position.
8
He was not a sodden imbecile, but he was ill-chosen for his office.
9
It was a good, old-fashioned, hot, heavy summer afternoon, one ill-chosen for love-making.
10
Let us leave this ill-chosen denomination and ask ourselves what the Lampyris feeds upon.
11
It seems to me to have been an ill-chosen battle-field.
12
Proctor was forced the following day to fight at a disadvantage, on ill-chosen ground.
13
This place- Iwilladmit that it is ill-chosen-butwhat other was open to me?
14
Charley wondered bitterly if he had made an irreparable error in saying those ill-chosen words.
15
It was an ill-chosen hour for Keraunus, for the Emperor was in a gloomy mood.
16
What's the betting those ill-chosen words will come back to bite him in the backside?
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United Kingdom
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