ill-sorted

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ill-sorted

adjective more ill-sorted · most ill-sorted

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."

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@misc{ill_sorted_2026,
  title = {ill-sorted},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ill-sorted},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}