ill-placed
English
Adjective
ill-placed (comparative more ill-placed, superlative most ill-placed)
- Badly, mistakenly, or unfortunately placed.
- 1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 2, page 289:
- I have watched him read, first earnestly; then the page has been closed unconsciously, and he remained lost in a gloomy reverie. I have opened the volume when he left the room, and found that the record was of ill-placed affection.