mismate
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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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
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
They have not much to sell: a handful of amber beads, half a dozen mismated, tinted water tumblers, a tall, slender, gaily painted chalk doll.
From Time Magazine Archive
At once it gave the startling impression of separate semi-faces filched from two different rawheads and slapped together thus, in smeared, mismated makeshift, that was hideous.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald
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
M. Arouet pater did not marry until his mind was mature, so that he might avoid the danger of a mismating.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Elbert Hubbard
Social condemnation should stigmatize the wrong of mismating, not the undoing of such a wrong.
From Applied Eugenics by Paul Popenoe
In order to explain what perfect marriage is, Swedenborg works by the process of elimination and reveals every possible condition of mismating.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Elbert Hubbard
Such mismating is not at first apparent—may not be for several years.
From The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book by William F. (William Frederick) Bigelow
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