ill-fitting
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English
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[edit]ill-fitting (comparative more ill-fitting, superlative most ill-fitting)
- poorly fitted
- an ill-fitting pair of jeans
- 2023 February 22, Howard Johnston, “Southern '313s': is the end now in sight?”, in RAIL, number 977, page 42:
- There was no First Class accommodation, and there were always strong draughts from their ill-fitting doors.
- improperly matched; unsuitable
- 2020, Barack Obama, A Promised Land, Crown:
- It was as if, because of the very strangeness of my heritage and the worlds I straddled, I was from everywhere and nowhere at once, a combination of ill-fitting parts, like a platypus or some imaginary beast, confined to a fragile habitat, unsure of where I belonged.