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

They have not much to sell: a handful of amber beads, half a dozen mismated, tinted water tumblers, a tall, slender, gaily painted chalk doll.

From Time Magazine Archive

One listener summed it up: "It didn't take Bernstein to show that they were 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

The reflection came that the mismated in this present age must ordinarily bear the burden to the end.

From A Man and a Woman by Waterloo, Stanley