mismate
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Phyllie, don't mismate; those that do regret it.
From Tobogganing on Parnassus by Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce)
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
One listener summed it up: "It didn't take Bernstein to show that they were mismated."
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
He led them through the small living room, put on a pair of shorts and mismated huaraches.
From The Five Arrows by Chase, Allan
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 Huneker, James
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 Hubbard, Elbert
Social condemnation should stigmatize the wrong of mismating, not the undoing of such a wrong.
From Applied Eugenics by Popenoe, Paul
It is desirable, however, to realize that mismating is the real evil.
From Applied Eugenics by Popenoe, Paul
