ill-matched
Example Sentences
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For one thing, there were obvious ways my parents were ill-matched.
From Washington Post ● 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 ● Apr. 17, 2019
It would be hard to find two words that seem so ill-matched as “Afghanistan cricket.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 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
Tax not the Royal Saint with vain expense, With ill-matched aims the architect, who planned, Albeit labouring for a scanty band Of white-robed scholars only, this immense And glorious work of fine intelligence.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare
