misfitted

"Fast-paced lifestyles, coupled with heavy media diets of visual immediacy, beget brains misfitted to traditional modes of academic learning," writes psychologist Jane Healy in "Endangered Minds."

The End Of The Word As We Know It 2008

I feared I might not ever get to smoochify another misfitted cheek.

The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004

I feared I might not ever get to smoochify another misfitted cheek.

The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004

I feared I might not ever get to smoochify another misfitted cheek.

The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004

Jennie maintained that the misfitted Mr. Lawrence was alive, very much so; that Esther and he weren't even divorced, but merely separated.

The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918

Ivar's bandy legs seemed to have grown shorter with years, and they were completely misfitted to his broad, thick body and heavy shoulders.

O Pioneers! Willa Sibert Cather 1910

Lady Portarles, whose voice and manner would not have misfitted a jockey, had a heart of gold, and hid the most genuine sympathy and most gentle kindliness, beneath the somewhat coarse manners affected by some ladies at that time.

The Scarlet Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

Lady Portarles, whose voice and manner would not have misfitted a jockey, had a heart of gold, and hid the most genuine sympathy and most gentle kindliness, beneath the somewhat coarse manners affected by some ladies at that time.

The Scarlet Pimpernel 1905

Old Hicks fitted, or rather misfitted, him in a faded blue tailed coat and a topper, Jarvis looked like an Otto Gushing cartoon of

Bambi Marjorie Benton Cooke 1898

He was a young fellow far too well made, and carried himself too alertly, to look as if any clothes misfitted him; his person gave their good cut elegance, but he had the effect of having fallen away in them.

Dr. Breen's Practice William Dean Howells 1878