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ill-formed
[il-fawrmd]
adjective
badly formed.
Linguistics.not conforming to the rules of a given language; ungrammatical (well-formed ).
Other 51Թ Forms
- ill-formedness noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of ill-formed1
Example Sentences
It's questionable that he could get fence-sitters to believe his lies about Harris, as ill-formed and lazy as his insults are.
In that role, "The View" is channeling large swaths of the public's thoughts, intuitions and moods – however vague and ill-formed those thoughts and feelings may be.
We’ve learned a lot in a quarter century — none of which appears to be present in the editorial board’s thinking or legislators’ ill-formed bills.
It’s that Chazelle, a director of impressive chops and a writer of often hasty, ill-formed ideas, isn’t strong enough to make those movies breathe as one.
In effect, the political institutions and the very authority of the federal government were too new and ill-formed to cope effectively with the foreign and domestic challenges facing the new nation.
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