"unfortunate comparison" is a valid phrase that can be used in written English.
It is used to describe a comparison that is unwise or inappropriate, often causing consequences or offense. It can also refer to a comparison that is not accurate or fair. Here is an example of its usage in a sentence: "The politician's attempt to downplay the seriousness of the crisis by making an unfortunate comparison between it and a disagreement between siblings sparked outrage among the public."
Father Ted was an unfortunate comparison.
As Justice Louis Brandeis wrote, making a most unfortunate comparison between a woman and a barnyard animal: Does anybody doubt that the only way you can get work out of a horse is to feed the horse properly?
Everything Everything are, essentially, the band Alt-J think they are (although Jonathan Higgs could, in all honesty, do with ratcheting down the falsetto a little, if only to reduce that unfortunate comparison).
On the plus side, there's a Shirley Jackson-infleleganceegance to the cyclical narrative, which lifts Blair Witch above the cliches of this year's The Forest (with which it bears unfortunate comparison) while a sequence that riffs on the claustrophobia of The Descent and The Borderlands is executed in suffocating fashion.
He acknowledged that smog was affecting an increasingly wide area and said authorities would fight pollution "with the same determination with which we battled poverty".That may be an unfortunate comparison, much of China's success in dealing with poverty having been a by-product of the same rapid growth that has wreaked environmental havoc.
"That was an unfortunate comparison," he admitted, referring to the CNN comment.
With its 30-centimeter dinner-plate-sized wheels, an engine the size of a small outboard motor generating 33 horsepower, and a single windshield wiper, the Nano has already drawn some unfortunate comparisons to kitchen appliances and garden tools.
Having emerged unscathed from the inevitable and unfortunate comparisons to fellow ladies of electropop Lady Gaga and Little Boots, it may well seem like a case of being all dressed up with nowhere to go, since so much of their debut charted the breakdown of a long-term relationship.
This unfortunate historical comparison, Reddit user IoI_xD theorizes, may have helped draw so many subreddits into the Allies' fold.
Michael Bay broke his silence for the first time about why Fox was replaced after two films as Shia LaBeouf's lady co-star, saying that it was her unfortunate dictatorial comparison that did her in.
In 1991 she returned with the two-part television western Son of the Morning Star, but this nuanced portrait of Custer suffered unfortunate and unfair comparisons to Dances with Wolves, which had been released three months previously.
