mismate
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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.
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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.
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Unaware or uninterested that the two are mismated, the matchmakers give their efforts much more sense of ravishment than of matrimony.
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One moved with her moreover among phenomena mismated and unrelated; nothing in her talk ever matched with anything out of it.
From Embarrassments by Henry James
The similar drug diethylstilbestrol, which Yale researchers are finding equally effective, has been used by veterinarians for years to treat mismating in animals.
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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
The contradiction and ludicrousness of this mismating is so easy of explanation that the incongruity is missed.
From Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by George M. (George Milbrey) Gould
M. Arouet pater did not marry until his mind was mature, so that he might avoid the danger of a mismating.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Elbert Hubbard
It was simply a case of mismating, and no good would result from the union.
From Melomaniacs by James Huneker