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malformatted

malformatted adjective: poorly or incorrectly formatted.

Adjective

malformatted (not comparable)

  1. Poorly or incorrectly formatted.
    • SpamAssassin works by assigning scores to characteristics of suspected spam mail. These range from malformatted headers to the use of embedded code meant to identify the recipient.2004, PC Mag

Origin of malformatted

From mal- + formatted.

Questions about malformatted

What does malformatted mean?
Malformatted means poorly or incorrectly formatted.
What part of speech is malformatted?
Malformatted is an adjective.

Words near malformatted in the dictionary

  1. malform
  2. malformation
  3. malformational
  4. malformations
  5. malformative
  6. malformatted
  7. malformed
  8. malformedness
  9. malformin
  10. malforming
  11. malformins

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