misalliance
Americannoun
noun
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Example Sentences
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Farber set the tragedy in a bleak Scottish no man’s land, where a mournful cello underscores a doleful marital misalliance.
From Washington Post • Dec. 6, 2021
This misalliance was not helped when Johnson was here in September and said the French were making too much of the sub spat, noting “Donnez-moi un break” and telling them to “prenez un grip.”
From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2021
Already determined to be an actress, Martin handed over the offspring of this misalliance — baby Larry — to her parents, who raised him.
From Washington Post • Jul. 7, 2016
The strange Roosevelt-Hearst misalliance in Seattle came to an end.
From Time Magazine Archive
And then he has no way of knowing when the name divorced from its first thing is carrying on a misalliance with some other thing.
From Public Opinion by Lippmann, Walter
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