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Definition of Misfitted
1. misfit [v] - See also: misfit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misfitted
Literary usage of Misfitted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The School Journal (1895)
"... what sizes of adjustable desks should go into those rooms, but I found in the
actual seating furnished forty- seven per cent, of the children misfitted. ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement by American Physical Education Association (1897)
"I cannot say just what the percentage of those misfitted in all our schools may
be, but in 100 sample rooms I found only 18 in which there was not gross ..."
3. The Stenographer (1894)
"It is my conviction that by the bad habits we acquire as longhand writers, the
hand is largely misfitted (happily, not incurably misfitted) for the ..."
4. A Country Schoolmaster by James Shaw (1899)
"Big Will's taen the best plan of a'; There's a heap he can say to his mither, O
we're a' misfitted thegither, A fremit wife would but misca'. ..."
5. Central Criminal Court. Minutes of Evidence by Great Britain Central Criminal Court, Henry Buckler (1840)
"... for a coat that misfitted him— he had come to the shop almost every day for
about two months, but I never spoke to him—I had no quarrel with him about a ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"... stencilled on the glassy wings : first green, then lemon yellow, and to complete
the picture, a black body color ; the latter is somewhat misfitted, ..."
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