mismated

Example Sentences

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Of the 1975 comedy-drama "Lucky Lady," for example, he wrote that it was a "cynical, vulgar, contrived, mismated, violent, uneven and uninteresting disaster."

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2014

Under the old Army method of pushing people around on paper, too often men and jobs were mismated.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Sonora law is now a symposium of "grounds for divorce" so complete that, in the opinion of Se�or del Toro, it will be found applicable to almost any couple really mismated.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes she gets kidded by Announcer Dick Willard and Husband Bill Sauter, a quiet, wisecracking ex-actor who contributes a felicitous conjugal note that draws plaintive queries from mismated listeners.

From Time Magazine Archive

How near had he been to them in the black night while they talked of his wife's mismated beauty?

From The Brimming Cup by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield