ill-matched
Example Sentences
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Pan beating dates back to the Middle Ages in a custom, called “charivari,” that was intended to shame ill-matched couples, according to Emmanuel Fureix, a historian at University Paris-Est Créteil.
From New York Times ● May 22, 2023
Their third ill-matched roommate arrives in a gauzy, ankle-length gown and dainty gloves.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 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 S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich) Aksakov
