ill-fitting

adj — 2 senses

ill-fitting

adj

1

Poorly fitted.

The amateur stood in the glare of the spot, his brown shoes mismatched to the blue, ill-fitting suit. He rolled his eyes nervously toward the balcony.1970, Wally Ferris, Across 110th, page 222:
There was no First Class accommodation, and there were always strong draughts from their ill-fitting doors.2023 February 22, Howard Johnston, “Southern '313s': is the end now in sight?”, in RAIL, number 977, page 42:

2

Improperly matched; unsuitable.

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.2020, Barack Obama, A Promised Land, Crown:

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