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

For an hour he'd been little more than a keen if ill-fitting presence in the Celtic attack.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 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

To make matters worse, my limited wardrobe consisted entirely of ill-fitting clothes from thrift stores and donation bins—the social equivalent of having a bull’s-eye painted on my forehead.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline