ill-matched
Example Sentences
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For one thing, there were obvious ways my parents were ill-matched.
From Washington Post β Apr. 9, 2021
In the ideal production, it creates the sense of fire meeting fire in a folie à deux between two ill-matched yet inexorably bound lovers.
From New York Times β Apr. 17, 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 β Mar. 18, 2014
Picasso instead delights in coarsely ill-matched colours and a face pale and diseased from modern city life.
From The Guardian β Jul. 31, 2012
And the rustics, who had followed the ill-matched maiden with, at least, as much spite as pity, now showed more of the better feeling, and brought her safe, though trembling, home to her mother's cottage.
From Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. by William Davy Watson
