illfitting
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]illfitting (comparative more illfitting, superlative most illfitting)
- Alternative form of ill-fitting
- 1910, Albert Thomas Kinsley, A Text Book of Veterinary Pathology, page 41:
- Illfitting saddles produce sore backs, sitfasts, injury in the region of girth and bruises resulting in fistulous withers.
- 1914 June, A. W. Thornton, “What We Know and What We Should Do in Crown and Bridge Work”, in Dental Review, volume 28, number 6, page 537:
- The great drawback however as has already been stated, is the unbearable pain, which renders perfect preparation impossible, and makes an illfitting band with its attendant evils, the sequel to all such efforts.
- 1971, Pacem in maribus, page 43:
- Quite likely that is what it still is in some of the new nations writhing under mistailored, illfitting western democratic constitutions