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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

It would be hard to find two words that seem so ill-matched as “Afghanistan cricket.”

From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2015

I think sometimes encountering an old version of yourself can be both pleasant and useful; however, my parents were so ill-matched and very few positive feelings remained on either side.

From Slate • Mar. 18, 2014

Picasso instead delights in coarsely ill-matched colours and a face pale and diseased from modern city life.

From The Guardian • Jul. 31, 2012

At that time there were none of those collisions, which constantly occur at ordinary times between ill-matched characters; and, even if there were occasions for such misunderstandings, they passed unnoticed.

From A Russian Gentleman by Aksakov, S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich)




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