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mismate

[ mis-meyt ]

verb (used with or without object)

mismated, mismating.
  1. to mate unsuitably or wrongly.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of mismate1

First recorded in 1890–95; mis- 1 + mate 1
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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."

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“The lady requires protection,†declared the gallant man with the mismated wearing apparel.

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Death has released him from the grim necessity of living his mismated life and caring for the child born of parents of such divergent types.

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In politics we have mismated and unmated women, who hold conventions, clamor for the ballot, and advocate the doctrine of "natural selection."

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The unhappiness resultant upon the mismating of a man and woman, utterly divergent in everything that is essential to make their union a happy one, is depicted in a forceful, clear, and well-sustained manner.

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