Meanings
comparative more illfitting · superlative most illfitting
- alternativeAlternative form of ill-fitting.
Illfitting saddles produce sore backs, sitfasts, injury in the region of girth and bruises resulting in fistulous withers.
1910, Albert Thomas Kinsley, A Text Book of Veterinary Pathology, page 412 more examples
The great drawback however as has already been stated, is the unbearable pain, which renders perfect preparation impossible, and makes an illfitting band with its attendant evils, the sequel to all such efforts.
1914 June, A. W. Thornton, “What We Know and What We Should Do in Crown and Bridge Work”, in Dental Review, volume 28, number 6, page 537Quite likely that is what it still is in some of the new nations writhing under mistailored, illfitting western democratic constitutions
1971, Pacem in maribus, page 43
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