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misalliance

[ mis-uh-lahy-uhns ]

noun

  1. an improper or incompatible association, especially in marriage; éԳ.


misalliance

/ ˌɪəˈɪəԲ /

noun

  1. an unsuitable alliance or marriage
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of misalliance1

1730–40; mis- 1 + alliance, modeled on French éԳ
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Farber set the tragedy in a bleak Scottish no man’s land, where a mournful cello underscores a doleful marital misalliance.

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This misalliance was not helped when Johnson was here in September and said the French were making too much of the sub spat, noting “Donnez-moi un break” and telling them to “prenez un grip.”

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Bernstein made the “Oedipus Rex” recording essentially so that he could use it to demonstrate some points in that final Norton lecture about stylistic misalliances.

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Already determined to be an actress, Martin handed over the offspring of this misalliance — baby Larry — to her parents, who raised him.

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Whatever is going on, whatever misalliances and misdelving of quiddities we get into, the human heart is still beating in the same way in everybody’s chest.

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