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apart
apartheid
atomistic
atomized
bitty
freely
gappy
give something/someone a wide berthidiom
hermetically sealed
in piecesidiom
purdah
resegregation
secluded
secludedly
seclusive
unattached
uncombined
unfused
uninhabited
untethered

disjointed | American Dictionary

disjointed
adjective
us/dɪsˈdʒɔɪn·tɪd/
(esp. of words or ideas) not well connected or well ordered, and therefore often confusing:
She gave a disjointed account of getting lost in the woods.

Examples of disjointed

disjointed
In each case the fruit of this toxicity is something that is disjointed, distorted and disrupting.
The music is nervous, disjointed, indeed unsettling in places.
This avenue is likely to lead to a disjointed heap of ad hoc stipulations.
Then, some morphological operations are carried out for connecting disjointed blobs.
Due to this disjointed transfer of power, issues of relief were largely swept under the carpet until the 1820s.
The one major flaw in its presentation is the typesetting of the small cap constraint names, which is at times awkwardly disjointed.
The rather disjointed episodic style also adds to the tension.
In the past, research on natural resources has been too often conducted in a disjointed, fragmented fashion.
Their melodies grew more fragmented and increasingly disjointed; the vocal line blurred and merged with the instruments.
And third, the domestic institutions that defined, standardized and conferred status to the 'talented' became increasingly fragmented, disjointed and out of sync with each other.
In general, the main limitation of the book is its lack of direction, whereby contributions are disjointed.
The bodies are like plasticine, disjointed and collapsing under pressure, while the movements seem desultory and impersonal.
The gaps in the contributions make the test-issue part of the book seem very disjointed.
The resulting picture of the syntactic input to agreement is one that is rather disjointed.
At best, they may be permitted to give a static performance and mumble through a few disjointed lines.
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