Malformatted

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Poorly or incorrectly formatted. not-comparable

    "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."

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From mal- + formatted.

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