poor relation
Example Sentences
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Bayswater was long considered the poor relation of its ultradesirable London neighbors Notting Hill and Marylebone, but new development is driving up home prices in the area.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
Though it can seem the poor relation of “real” television, the game show has a long history with the medium.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2023
According to the paper, citizenship is the "poor relation in the Northern Ireland Curriculum."
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2022
His poor relation had always been an anomaly in the ranks of SPI employees, old among the young, emaciated among the luscious, a lonely figure, permanently out of step, everyone’s crazy grandpa.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 22, 2019
He offered to send me from Cambridge to an academy in Germany, to fit me for foreign service: Well judging that a cannon ball was a fair and quick provision for a poor relation.
From The Heiress; a comedy, in five acts by Burgoyne, John
