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English
Adjective
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.
Translations
improperly matched; unsuitable