ill-fitting

Example Sentences

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Instead, gazing back at me was a 44-year-old mom in an ill-fitting fleece, the style just as unflattering as it was all those years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 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

They gave her a shift of grey roughspun wool and a pair of ill-fitting shoes, and sent her off.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin