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
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
Under the old Army method of pushing people around on paper, too often men and jobs were mismated.
From Time Magazine Archive
There the miracle occurred: Minne and Antoine found they were not so mismated after all.
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 Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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
Social condemnation should stigmatize the wrong of mismating, not the undoing of such a wrong.
From Applied Eugenics by Paul Popenoe
It is desirable, however, to realize that mismating is the real evil.
From Applied Eugenics by Paul Popenoe
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
We cannot countenance brutality, unfaithfulness, or temperamental mismating.
From The Nervous Housewife by Abraham Myerson
