Definition of "misfitting" []

• Present participle of misfit. (verb)

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• "Suddenly Ngog no longer looks like a misfitting Liverpool discard but the pacy, mobile, strong and skilful forward who once starred for the France Under-21s."
• "This was all done while wearing face paint, dunce caps, misfitting overalls, and bright yellow wigs."
• "The sleepiest and shabbiest of soldiery go wandering about, with the double curse of laziness and poverty, uncouthly wrinkling their misfitting regimentals; the dirtiest of children play with their impromptu toys (pigs and mud) in the feeblest of gutters; and the gauntest of dogs trot in and out of the dullest of archways, in perpetual search of something to eat, which they never seem to find."