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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Following the hungry question of her mismated eyes, the doctor gravely nodded his head.

From Destiny by Buck, Charles Neville