of a sort

Having inferior, mediocre, or incomplete characteristics of something. He writes poetry of a sort, but it's nothing that will set the world ablaze. The office has a gym of a sort, but it's in such disrepair that no one really uses it.

of a ˈkind/ˈsort

(disapproving) (used after a noun) of poor quality; not what somebody/something should be: He is a poet of a kind. ♢ They gave us meat of a sort; we could hardly eat it.

See also: kind, of, sort

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of all the cheek, nerve, stupid things to do, etc.!
of all the nerve
of all the nerve
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