'Not a typical or good exampe.' Is that of this meaning only?
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─ of sorts:
- of various kinds
- of a poor or inferior kind. also 'of a sort'
Webster's New World College Dictionary indicated as their source.
─ of sorts, of a sort:
- Of a mediorcre or inferior kind: a constitutional government of a sort.
- Of one kind or another: knew many folktales of sorts.
... The American Heritage
─ of sorts:
3. sorts. in of sorts, inferior; unsatisfactory: coll.: C.20. E.g. "He's certainly a writer─of sorts." Ex the ob. of sorts, of varisous kinds. P.B.: cf. the army quartermasters' j. in, e.g., "One cases [sic], wooden, packing, local pattern, of sorts."
.... A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (Routledge, 2006)
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