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
Under the old Army method of pushing people around on paper, too often men and jobs were mismated.
From Time Magazine Archive
One listener summed it up: "It didn't take Bernstein to show that they 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
No young mismated woman can escape them perhaps.
From The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems by Victor, Frances Fuller
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
We cannot countenance brutality, unfaithfulness, or temperamental mismating.
From The Nervous Housewife by Myerson, Abraham
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)
Show how this transformation makes the mismating of Titania with Bottom more gross and obvious to the audience; also how this is the next direct effect of Oberon's revenge.
From Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies by Porter, Charlotte Endymion
The unhappiness resultant upon the mismating of a man and woman, utterly divergent in everything that is essential to make their union a happy one, is depicted in a forceful, clear, and well-sustained manner.
From A Trooper Galahad by King, Charles
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