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mismate

[mis-meyt] / mɪsˈmeɪt /


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Phyllie, don't mismate; those that do regret it.

From Tobogganing on Parnassus by Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce) Adams

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

Unaware or uninterested that the two are mismated, the matchmakers give their efforts much more sense of ravishment than of matrimony.

From Time Magazine Archive

There the miracle occurred: Minne and Antoine found they were not so mismated after all.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unhappy marriages include not only the mismated, but also those whose unhappiness in married life is due to their own or their mate's misconception of what marriage really means.

From Vocational Guidance for Girls by Marguerite Stockman Dickson

The similar drug diethylstilbestrol, which Yale researchers are finding equally effective, has been used by veterinarians for years to treat mismating in animals.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was simply a case of mismating, and no good would result from the union.

From Melomaniacs by James Huneker

Social condemnation should stigmatize the wrong of mismating, not the undoing of such a wrong.

From Applied Eugenics by Paul Popenoe

In order to explain what perfect marriage is, Swedenborg works by the process of elimination and reveals every possible condition of mismating.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Elbert Hubbard

Show how this transformation makes the mismating of Titania with Bottom more gross and obvious to the audience; also how this is the next direct effect of Oberon's revenge.

From Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies by Charlotte Endymion Porter




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