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
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
There the miracle occurred: Minne and Antoine found they were not so mismated after all.
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
Death has released him from the grim necessity of living his mismated life and caring for the child born of parents of such divergent types.
From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Elizabeth Ashe
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
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 Thomas Hardy
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 Charles King
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
The contradiction and ludicrousness of this mismating is so easy of explanation that the incongruity is missed.
From Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by George M. (George Milbrey) Gould
