poor relation
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.24 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Because of our homosexuality the Black community casts us as outsiders. We are the poor relations, the proverbial black sheep, without a history, a literature, a religion, or a community"
- "Competition policy was the poor relation of industrial policy. By the 1990s the position was reversed. Industrial policy was passe, competition policy was central to the economic policy debate."
- "In the State Department, Africa was the poor relation, handled as a subsidiary of the Middle East Bureau."
- "The Bakerloo Line, the poor relation of the London Underground, has become a huge talking point in terms of both its immediate and medium-term future."