ill-matched
Example Sentences
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The author’s ill-matched father and mother are saints; his stepmother, Raine Spencer, a sinner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Real was beaten within 10 minutes: two goals down, ruthlessly exposed, looking suddenly like the expensive collection of gifted but ill-matched individuals that all right-thinking people dismissed them as about four Champions League titles ago.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2022
But on black-and-white television screens, “her face, hair and dress were all one washed-out color and her gestures seeming ill-matched and awkward,” one columnist wrote.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2020
In the event it was a disaster, an ill-matched confusion of a bold, peacocking public persona with sound mid-season footballing sense.
From The Guardian ● May 12, 2018
He nodded again, and we turned, and went on in silence, eying one another askance, like two ill-matched dogs coupled together.
From The Story of Francis Cludde by Stanley John Weyman
