mismated

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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

Under the old Army method of pushing people around on paper, too often men and jobs were mismated.

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

Of all the mismated pairs ever created The worst of the lot were the Spratts.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn