poor relation
Example Sentences
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Bayswater was long considered the poor relation of its ultradesirable London neighbors Notting Hill and Marylebone, but new development is driving up home prices in the area.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
Since then, T20 cricket, The Hundred and other white-ball franchise competitions have grown in size and stature, leaving one-day cricket seemingly the poor relation of cricket's three main formats.
From BBC • Oct. 4, 2023
Diagnostics has been the poor relation to drugs and vaccines for years, as governments are now realising to their cost.
From The Guardian • May 1, 2020
His poor relation had always been an anomaly in the ranks of SPI employees, old among the young, emaciated among the luscious, a lonely figure, permanently out of step, everyone’s crazy grandpa.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 22, 2019
Eunice Trevor had played the part of poor relation all her life, and the bread of dependence is both a dry and a bitter morsel in the mouth.
From In Jeopardy by Sutphen, Van Tassel
