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poor relation
noun
Something seen as inferior.
Exact(59)
The poor relation.
It remains the poor relation of medicine.
"Actually, it's not such a poor relation.
Is the short story really the novel's poor relation?
Western Cameroons always has been a poor relation.
Snooker, like its poor relation pool, is a cue sport.
We've always felt like the poor relation [at Westminster].
This region has long been the poor relation of Spain".
Domestic abuse must no longer be the poor relation".
In other words, Molly is the poor relation.
Similar(1)
An aggrieved and envious poor relation, professes to want to help save the ancestral homestead.
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