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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
mismate . - adjective Provided with an unsuitable
mate
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not easy to combine harmoniously
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Examples
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Its feeble beam glanced off the obsidian waters beneath their feet and caught the glitter of slime, the flash of mismated eyes.
The Silicon Mage Hambly, Barbara 1988
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Worsel, the schizophrene, was worse than ever-the dual personality of himself was alone, mismated, in hyperspace, conjured up by a young Lensman with psychic powers, accompanied by the weirdest of fantasies.
The Dragon Lensman Kyle, David, 1919- 1981
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Harlean Carpentier, later to become the most popular female film star of her time, was born in 1911 of a conspicuously mismated and middle-class couple.
Hell's Angel Sigal, Clancy 1964
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The world is full of wretched and mismated people.
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Certain Territories bank on their divorce laws, and the mismated have but to go there and live a few months to obtain a separation on almost any claim.
As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home Anonymous
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The red light that heralded the departure of the sun behind the wooded hills across the lake seemed to make the room and its mismated furnishings uglier than before.
Janice Day at Poketown Helen Beecher Long
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Do the unhappily married ever dare pause to think of the real mate of each, lost somewhere in the wide world, perhaps going about, ever seeking, seeking, perhaps greatly mismated and equally unhappy?
At Home with the Jardines Lilian Bell
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Again, it is unfair to the future generation to compel mismated couples to live together.
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In truth, no two persons could have been more thoroughly mismated -- Byron, the human volcano, and his wife, a prim, narrow-minded, and peevish woman.
Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr
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In truth, no two persons could have been more thoroughly mismated -- Byron, the human volcano, and his wife, a prim, narrow-minded, and peevish woman.
Famous Affinities of History — Volume 3 Lyndon Orr
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