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

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

Were ever a city and a sporting spectacle so ill-matched?

From The Guardian • Jul. 20, 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 Aksakov, S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich)