ill-fitting

English

Adjective

ill-fitting (comparative more ill-fitting, superlative most ill-fitting)

  1. poorly fitted
    an ill-fitting pair of jeans
  2. improperly matched; unsuitable
    • 2020, Barack Obama, A Promised Land, Crown:
      It was as if, because of the very strangeness of my heritage and the worlds I straddled, I was from everywhere and nowhere at once, a combination of ill-fitting parts, like a platypus or some imaginary beast, confined to a fragile habitat, unsure of where I belonged.

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