mésalliance
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of mésalliance
From French, dating back to 1775–85; see origin at mis- 1, alliance
Vocabulary lists containing mesalliance
Example Sentences
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One kind of clue in analysis is a mésalliance — a mismatch.
From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2019
The mésalliance here, I’m suspecting, is the mismatch between the intensity of feeling and the referenced event that provoked the feeling.
From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2019
Seems a puzzling mésalliance on the part of Mssrs.
From Forbes • Nov. 3, 2014
In a weak moment she accepted a thinking part in a revue at the “Frivolity,” and her career ended, as might have been expected, in a shocking mésalliance.
From Marge Askinforit by Pain, Barry
This was none other than a consideration of Gabriel's engagement to the hotelkeeper's daughter, and an argument with himself as to whether or no he should consent to so obvious a mésalliance.
From The Bishop's Secret by Hume, Fergus
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