ill-matched
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The author’s ill-matched father and mother are saints; his stepmother, Raine Spencer, a sinner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
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
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
Step forward ill-matched cops Martin Rohde and more interestingly Saga Norén, a brilliant but bizarre investigator unlike any maverick TV detective ever seen.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2019
No one could remember ever having seen so ill-matched a pair.
From 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance by Ossip Schubin
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