(of two or more people or items) not well suited to or appropriate for each other.
an ill-matched couple
Example sentencesExamples
They were an ill-matched couple and she seems to have been relieved when he was deported as an unregistered alien during the First World War; they never saw one another again.
The two aren't as ill-matched as you might think.
It is also true that the Monarchy and ‘Establishment’ were more often at odds than not, like ill-matched horses in harness.
We were a seemingly ill-matched couple with a potentially disastrous future.
Food shopping should not be about compiling some competitive international smorgasbord of ill-matched delicacies, but about intimacy and confidence.
Definition of ill-matched in US English:
ill-matched
adjective
(of two or more people or items) not well suited to or appropriate for each other.
an ill-matched couple
Example sentencesExamples
Food shopping should not be about compiling some competitive international smorgasbord of ill-matched delicacies, but about intimacy and confidence.
It is also true that the Monarchy and ‘Establishment’ were more often at odds than not, like ill-matched horses in harness.
They were an ill-matched couple and she seems to have been relieved when he was deported as an unregistered alien during the First World War; they never saw one another again.
The two aren't as ill-matched as you might think.
We were a seemingly ill-matched couple with a potentially disastrous future.