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
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
Under the old Army method of pushing people around on paper, too often men and jobs were mismated.
From Time Magazine Archive
There the miracle occurred: Minne and Antoine found they were not so mismated after all.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is quite as easy to arrange them in this way as to gather in an ill-assorted, mismated collection.
From The Complete Home by Laughlin, Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth)
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 Hubbard, Elbert
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 Hubbard, Elbert
It is desirable, however, to realize that mismating is the real evil.
From Applied Eugenics by Popenoe, Paul
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
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