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Meanings of ill-sorted in English

Not easy to combine harmoniously.

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        Usage of ill-sorted in English
        1
        Even these charms faded under the sufferings attendant on an ill-sorted match.
        Waverley Novels — Volume 12
        2
        It is pity people are so ill-sorted.
        The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
        3
        They walked along in silence, the most ill-sorted pair that you might hope to find in all that higgledy-piggledy city.
        Cheerful—By Request
        4
        It seems a great pity that the principle of personal freedom should be responsible for so many ill-shaped and ill-sorted physical incompetents.
        Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army
        5
        There was plenty enough, but the dishes were ill-sorted; whole pyramids of sweetmeats, for boys and women; but little of solid meat, for men.
        The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 / With Life, Critica...
        Ill-sorted through the time