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ill-formed

[il-fawrmd] / ˈɪlˈfɔrmd /






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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.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2023

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.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2023

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.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2022

Horgan: Owen Flanagan told me that philosophers are “more ill-formed than your average person.”

From Scientific American • Jul. 6, 2020

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.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis