mismated

Example Sentences

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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

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

One listener summed it up: "It didn't take Bernstein to show that they were mismated."

From Time Magazine Archive

In her mourning she made a wonderfully appealing picture, as she gazed down at her plate, even though her lowered lashes half-masked the mismated beauty of her eyes.

From Destiny by Buck, Charles Neville