"poor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Track and field, a poor stepchild, offers occasional prize money, but invitation meets have traditionally lured athletes with appearance fees.
- He added that making matters harder was the fact that American music was a poor stepchild in mainstream musicology.
- Many residents believe the city has been slow to act, she said, because Brooklyn's status at City Hall is as a "poor stepchild."
- The Muslims got Sarajevo and an international commitment to arm them, they say, adding that their own region is being treated like a poor stepchild.
- Next to Haiti, the west coast of Nicaragua is the poorest stepchild of the Western Hemisphere.
- "It has been a poor stepchild," said a spokesman for Mr. Aspin.
- "Ivan" is the poor stepchild among Prokofiev's film scores.
- But at the moment, Portuguese food is the poor stepchild of Western Europe.
- Opera is the dominant form today, and melodrama seems but a poor stepchild.
- "Poetry is often treated as a poor stepchild of literature that needs to have its head patted."
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