ill-fitting
Example Sentences
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Foden was tireless, but this was England's equivalent of an ill-fitting square peg in a round hole.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
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
Fuentes is a dweeby kid in an ill-fitting suit, with none of the congenial charms of Joe Rogan or masculine swagger of Andrew Tate.
From Slate • Dec. 5, 2025
In others, he’s an imp hiding within an ill-fitting costume of normalcy.
From Salon • Oct. 13, 2025
Helen has a bum foot, which Ted, in explaining her absence one day, blames on the cheap, ill-fitting shoes that, he implies, she perversely chooses to wear.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
