Poor-relation Definition

Poor-relation Sentence Examples

• Political geography has been too often looked on from both sides as a mere summary of guide-book knowledge, useful in the schoolroom, a poor relation of physical geography that it was rarely necessary to recognize.

• Abigail Hill, Mrs Masham, a cousin of the duchess of Marlborough, had been introduced by the latter as a poor relation into Anne's service, while still princess of Denmark.

• Hundred Reasons In recent years, British metal has, like British hip-hop, been the poor relation of its American cousin.