ill-designed

It had been a disaster as a library, but was ill-designed for any other use.

Many are ill-designed, and blow up on the launch pad.

They weren't just ugly and large but so ill-designed that you could actually walk around them at least twice without ever finding the front entrance.

The small-business subsidies are ill-designed and not worth preserving.

Similar problems afflict ill-designed tax provisions that were attached to minimum-wage legislation.

Your system is ill-designed for their proper metabolism, and there are no highly beneficial foods in this group's diet.

"We human beings are singularly ill-designed in one respect.

Since the treaties of Vienna, our frontiers have been ill-designed for a healthy body politic.

Programs for graduate students are sometimes ill-designed.

Another security concern is when the implemented specifications are ill-designed and allow for security compromise.

Their garb was ill-designed for the rugged terrain.

Some welfare systems have been ill-designed.

There were ill-designed workplaces and disastrous mistakes.

"What was it somebody said: 'Golf is a game where you hit a small ball into a smaller hole with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose?'"

Were human beings such weak, ill-designed machines that so few could heal themselves, self-diagnose, self-critique?

Yet it has been argued that the British political system is ill-designed to allow the articulation of the interests of unpopular, minority groups.

The course is not protected from the severe winds, which blow from the Everglades, and is ill-designed for them.

Last month, I complained about those ill-designed Web sites that force users to re-enter information from the start if any error occurs.

There are more than one million cars competing for space on rutted city streets, most of which are ill-designed for heavy traffic.

Brigg has a drawerful of ill-designed print that he calls his 'chamber of horrors'.

Though fashioned on the great models of the ancients, it has little plot or action, and the characters, except that of the prince, are ill-designed.

The crash was not attributed to the novel configuration but to an ill-designed elevator trim tab that sent the Delta into a dive.

Davidson compares the workers' ill-designed houses with "ice-chests" in winter and "ovens" in summer.

He sat in his chair, shifting his rump as always to accommodate to the ill-designed seat, and pulled the headset down over his ears.

DeMerit scrapes - literally, scrapes - that away with some part of his leg that was ill-designed for playing a football.