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
Under the old Army method of pushing people around on paper, too often men and jobs were mismated.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
In his first analysis of what that letter might mean to him he had decided that his man would be recognizable by his mismated eyes.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford
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
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
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
It was simply a case of mismating, and no good would result from the union.
From Melomaniacs by James Huneker
We cannot countenance brutality, unfaithfulness, or temperamental mismating.
From The Nervous Housewife by Abraham Myerson
