ill-fitting
Example Sentences
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Wearing an ill-fitting hooded sweatshirt, with gray stubbles and baggy eyes, he didn’t look like a typical upscale tourist.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026
Through this, you can create your own career check list, and avoid wasting time on ill-fitting applications.
From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026
There were men in leather jackets, women in bedazzled red hats, young guys in ill-fitting suits.
From Slate • Dec. 8, 2025
In others, he’s an imp hiding within an ill-fitting costume of normalcy.
From Salon • Oct. 13, 2025
Like his lesser satellites, over the years Tom-Carl had assumed an ill-fitting air of respectability and did not care to be reminded of his nefarious beginnings.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
