ill-matched
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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
Step forward ill-matched cops Martin Rohde and more interestingly Saga Norén, a brilliant but bizarre investigator unlike any maverick TV detective ever seen.
From The Guardian • Sep. 16, 2019
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
Mr. Hill made a formidable team of this ill-matched pair by balancing Pascoe’s reflective intelligence with Dalziel’s blunt pragmatism.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2012
Surely there was never so ill-matched a trio as Rowley, Mrs. McRankine, and the Viscount Anne!
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
