mismate
Americanverb (used with or without object)
Etymology
Origin of mismate
Example Sentences
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Phyllie, don't mismate; those that do regret it.
From Tobogganing on Parnassus by Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce)
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
Unaware or uninterested that the two are mismated, the matchmakers give their efforts much more sense of ravishment than of matrimony.
From Time Magazine Archive
There the miracle occurred: Minne and Antoine found they were not so mismated after all.
From Time Magazine Archive
One listener summed it up: "It didn't take Bernstein to show that they were mismated."
From Time Magazine Archive
Young Edwardes had read of the weird beauty of such mismated eyes, but had never before seen them.
From Destiny by Buck, Charles Neville
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
However, they said very little about this mismating to any of their acquaintances, though sometimes Steve would look at James’s wife and sigh, and James would look at Steve’s wife and do the same.
From Life's Little Ironies by Hardy, Thomas
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 Gould, George M. (George Milbrey)
Such mismating is not at first apparent—may not be for several years.
From The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book by Bigelow, William F. (William Frederick)
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 Hubbard, Elbert
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