ill-fitting
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- adjective
- /ɪlˈfɪtɪŋ/
- "Do you go to school here?" Frank asked, feeling uncomfortable in his ill-fitting plaid shorts.
- ill-fitting clothes
- wearing ill-fitting
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Watch on YouTubeLet me look at myself around the mirror kind of not looks a little ill fitting like on me.
- Let me look at myself around the mirror kind of not looks a little ill fitting like on me.
Examples
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But the footman was already halfway down the drive, his ill-fitting shoes flopping against the gravel.
Fiction book (1997) -
The fingers were cold, the flesh loose about the bones like an ill-fitting glove.
Fiction book (2001) -
A woman in an ill-fitting pressure suit shined her light directly into our faces.
Fiction book (1993) -
The garment seemed so heavy and ill-fitting that I wondered if I had the strength to wear it.
Fiction book (1999) -
You can't show up like some schlub in an ill-fitting suit.
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I knew my ill-fitting clothes were unsuited to the exertions that lay before me.
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Drew is dressed in the ill-fitting handmade suit by Mrs. Rodriguez.
Fiction book (1991) -
Eventually, Emily stood up and smoothed out the front of her apricot-colored, ill-fitting dress.
Fiction book (1995) -
Beside Edna, in big white sunglasses and an ill-fitting yellow sundress, is Barb, four months pregnant.
Fiction book (1993) -
He felt self-conscious in his ill-fitting jacket that was several sizes too big.
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Etymology
The word ill-fitting is made from ill + fit: ill means 'bad' or 'not' and fit means 'to be the right size'. Think of it as a 'bad fit', so ill-fitting describes something that does not fit or sit properly.