ill-fitting - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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ill-fitting (comparative more ill-fitting, superlative most ill-fitting)

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

improperly matched; unsuitable