ill-fitting

[ il-fit-ing ]

adjective

1. (of a garment) not fitting well.
2. not appropriate or suitable.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ill-fitting¹

First recorded in 1865–70; ill ( def ) + fitting ( def )

Example Sentences

Sanders is dressed in a blue oxford shirt and ill-fitting creased khaki dress pants.

From The Daily Beast

And most of the contemporization sounds like what it is—an ostentatious, slightly ill-fitting suit slipped onto a stiff.

From The Daily Beast

Meanwhile, I sit in my wrinkled, ill-fitting blazer, sweaty from nerves and running to get to this interview on time.

From The Daily Beast

He re-invents himself: he goes from ill-fitting polyester cotton blends to silk shirts and stylish leather jackets.

From The Daily Beast

He gets up there in his medium-priced, ill-fitting suits and says, ‘This is what I’ve always worn.

From The Daily Beast

A man falls in with various folks by sea and land, and he finds many that are made up of ill-fitting parts.

From Project Gutenberg

He was a short, stout individual with ill-fitting, somewhat soiled clothing and a hard, shrewd face.

From Project Gutenberg

Seeing we were all harmless, the officer dropped his military preciseness as if it were an ill-fitting garment.

From Project Gutenberg

After all these years, Mr. Daaken stands before me a prominent figure of the past in an ill-fitting suit of snuff colour.

From Project Gutenberg

I shivered—a draught of cold air had in all probability stolen through the cracks of the ill-fitting window-frames.

From Project Gutenberg

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