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
They have not much to sell: a handful of amber beads, half a dozen mismated, tinted water tumblers, a tall, slender, gaily painted chalk doll.
From Time Magazine Archive
There the miracle occurred: Minne and Antoine found they were not so mismated after all.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
The unhappiness resultant upon the mismating of a man and woman, utterly divergent in everything that is essential to make their union a happy one, is depicted in a forceful, clear, and well-sustained manner.
From A Trooper Galahad by Charles King
It was a most queer mismating, for the man was plain, sincere and honorable, and she was almost everything else.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Elbert Hubbard
Their marriage had been a mistake, that was all,—a mismating, as many marriages were.
From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell
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
