ILL-CHOSEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ill-chosen mean? 

• ILL-CHOSEN (adjective)
  The adjective ILL-CHOSEN has 1 sense:

1. not elegant or graceful in expression

  Familiarity information: ILL-CHOSEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ILL-CHOSEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not elegant or graceful in expression

Synonyms:

awkward; clumsy; cumbersome; ill-chosen; inapt; inept

Context example:

if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?

Similar:

infelicitous (not appropriate in application; defective)

 Context examples 

That her manner was wrong, however, at times very wrong, her measures often ill-chosen and ill-timed, and her looks and language very often indefensible, Fanny could not cease to feel; but she began to hope they might be rectified.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)