ill-matched

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However, you’ll need to read not just “Swann in Love” but the rest of “In Search of Lost Time” to learn what happens to this ill-matched couple.

From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2022

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

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 Watson, William Davy