misalliance
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of misalliance
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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
They had regarded Ned Holiday's marriage to Laura a misalliance, he recalled.
From Wild Wings A Romance of Youth by Piper, Margaret Rebecca
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