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mistailored en · ADJ

Etymology

From mis- + tailored.

Meanings

1. (of a garment) Badly fitted;
   • At issue in this case is whether plaintiff Maurice Uchitel may maintain a suit for breach of warranty on the part of seller F.R. Tripler and Company (Tripler), for the latter's sail to plaintiff of allegedly mistailored and defectively manufactured garments. 1981, Reports of Selected Cases Decided in Courts of the State of New York Other Than the court of Appeals and the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, page 311:
2. (figuratively) Not well suited to the purpose to which something is put.
   • Quite 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:
   • These are things that we, as a government—executive and legislative—must enter into collectively, not independently. This would correct some of the mistailored clothes that are imposed to try to clothe figuratively the needs of the islands . 1989, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Federal Policies Regarding the U.S. Insular Areas, page 213:

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