ill-fitting

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It's also about the players he has confused and bewildered with his ill-fitting shape and the ideology he refuses to alter no matter how befuddled things become.

From BBC • Jan. 3, 2026

In others, he’s an imp hiding within an ill-fitting costume of normalcy.

From Salon • Oct. 13, 2025

For the past month, we’ve been sneaking out in the early morning—she in a Navy SEAL-worthy vest and me in one that looks like an ill-fitting lifejacket—as we supercharge our morning walk.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2025

A black blazer, a white shirt buttoned to the top, and some manner of ill-fitting pants.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2025

“I’m simply saying, sir, that an ill-fitting suit—it does a man no favors.”

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin