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
Lawyers believe that the Treasury has long seen justice as a poor relation to health and education in terms of public spending.
From BBC • Sep. 16, 2020
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
It said: “The evidence clearly suggests that the UK saw itself as the poor relation to the US, and was distinctly uncomfortable at the prospect of complaining to its host.”
From The Guardian • Jun. 28, 2018
She had never been a poor relation yet, and she did not intend to start being one now.
From Poor Relations by MacKenzie, Compton
