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
Sometimes she gets kidded by Announcer Dick Willard and Husband Bill Sauter, a quiet, wisecracking ex-actor who contributes a felicitous conjugal note that draws plaintive queries from mismated listeners.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Following the hungry question of her mismated eyes, the doctor gravely nodded his head.
From Destiny by Charles Neville Buck
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
It was simply a case of mismating, and no good would result from the union.
From Melomaniacs by James Huneker
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
We cannot countenance brutality, unfaithfulness, or temperamental mismating.
From The Nervous Housewife by Abraham Myerson
Social condemnation should stigmatize the wrong of mismating, not the undoing of such a wrong.
From Applied Eugenics by Paul Popenoe
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