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Meanings of ill-sorted in English

Not easy to combine harmoniously.

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Examples for "incompatible"
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The incompatible member of the family-theone James wasn't able to control.
The notorious scoundrel
2
A similar number recommended seats that were incompatible with the tester's car.
The Guardian
3
The bank's new strategy shows the two goals may have been incompatible.
Reuters
4
This is incompatible with the political universalisation of a secularist world view.
The Irish Times
5
Property is incompatible with political and civil equality; then property is impossible.
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of ...
1
But the moment was unsuited for further endeavour in the New World.
The Mariner of St. Malo : A chronicle of the voyages of Jacques ...
2
Erlendur had always found Níels lazy and absolutely unsuited for detective work.
The draining lake
3
Carter a fine, intelligent, dedicated man, but unsuited to lead the nation.
The new yorker
4
I saw an unsuited figure stalking towards me, hand gun flung out.
Broken angels
5
Casks of wood are unsuited for African travel; small beetles perforate them.
Ismailia
1
They often spoke of the pathetic loneliness of this good-looking, kindly, mismated woman.
In the Days of Poor Richard
2
Following the hungry question of her mismated eyes, the doctor gravely nodded his head.
Destiny
3
How crooked were all the mismated planets at my birth!
The Purchase Price; Or, The Cause of Compromise
4
The two marvelous and mismated eyes looked at them all and did not see them.
Destiny
5
Charity could not help pondering the situation, for she saw that Jim was hopelessly mismated.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
Usage of ill-sorted in English
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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
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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
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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