mismated
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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
One listener summed it up: "It didn't take Bernstein to show that they were mismated."
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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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Under the old Army method of pushing people around on paper, too often men and jobs were mismated.
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There was little danger that their antlers would get locked this time, with one pair so badly mismated; and it bade fair to be a very ordinary, every-day sort of a fight.
From Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals by William Davenport Hulbert