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Discover LudwigThe phrase "ill designed" is not correct in standard written English; it should be "ill-designed" with a hyphen.
You can use it to describe something that has been poorly planned or constructed, typically in contexts related to design, architecture, or products. Example: "The ill-designed layout of the office made it difficult for employees to collaborate effectively."
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Even when Wayne is saying gobbledygook, as he sometimes is here, he does so with startling confidence; no syllable ever sounds ill placed, no rhyme ill designed.
On the team's current roster there is hardly a player who wasn't dismissed at one point in his career as ill designed to play big league baseball.
But empires are ill designed for promoting change; their preoccupation is to hold together, an imperative which tends to breed authoritarianism.
The I.M.F. said Friday in its annual report on the American economy that spending cuts by the United States government that kicked in March 1 were "ill designed" and slowed the economy.
The directive's wording is "ill designed for pharmaceuticals" he says.
Winston Churchill once quipped that golf clubs were "singularly ill designed" for the purpose of hitting a small ball into an even smaller hole.
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The International Monetary Fund said on Friday that an "excessively rapid and ill-designed" deficit reduction plan had hampered the "tepid" recovery in the US economy.
Cue an array of ill-designed shots.
There were ill-designed workplaces and disastrous mistakes.
Similar problems afflict ill-designed tax provisions that were attached to minimum-wage legislation.
"The deficit reduction in 2013 has been excessively rapid and ill-designed," the IMF said.
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