mismate
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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
Unaware or uninterested that the two are mismated, the matchmakers give their efforts much more sense of ravishment than of matrimony.
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Under the old Army method of pushing people around on paper, too often men and jobs were mismated.
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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.
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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 Lundsford, Hugh
The similar drug diethylstilbestrol, which Yale researchers are finding equally effective, has been used by veterinarians for years to treat mismating in animals.
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Social condemnation should stigmatize the wrong of mismating, not the undoing of such a wrong.
From Applied Eugenics by Popenoe, Paul
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)
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 Gould, George M. (George Milbrey)
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 Hubbard, Elbert