ill-matched
Example Sentences
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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
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 • 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 • 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
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 Weyman, Stanley John
