mismate
Americanverb (used with or without object)
Etymology
Origin of 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
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
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
The immorality and inhumanity of compelling the obviously mismated to live together, grow on society.
From The Business of Being a Woman by Ida M. Tarbell
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
Social condemnation should stigmatize the wrong of mismating, not the undoing of such a wrong.
From Applied Eugenics by Paul Popenoe
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
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 Thomas Hardy
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
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