ill-matched
Example Sentences
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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
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
Their third ill-matched roommate arrives in a gauzy, ankle-length gown and dainty gloves.
From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2015
It would be hard to find two words that seem so ill-matched as “Afghanistan cricket.”
From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2015
If it were not for the beautiful wall down stairs I would tell him candidly that so ill-mated a span--as ill-matched as an ox and horse--would never drag the plough very far.
From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. II by Heyse, Paul
