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
One listener summed it up: "It didn't take Bernstein to show that they were mismated."
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
Under the old Army method of pushing people around on paper, too often men and jobs were mismated.
From Time Magazine Archive
He led them through the small living room, put on a pair of shorts and mismated huaraches.
From The Five Arrows by Allan Chase
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
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 Charlotte Endymion Porter
Their marriage had been a mistake, that was all,—a mismating, as many marriages were.
From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell
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
It is desirable, however, to realize that mismating is the real evil.
From Applied Eugenics by Paul Popenoe
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