illfitting

Adjective

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

1. Poorly fitted.
   • The amateur stood in the glare of the spot, his brown shoes mismatched to the blue, ill-fitting suit. He rolled his eyes nervously toward the balcony.1970, Wally Ferris, Across 110th, page 222
2. Improperly matched; unsuitable.
   • 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.2020, Barack Obama, A Promised Land, Crown