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Meanings of mismated in English

Not easy to combine harmoniously.

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Examples for "incompatible"
1
The incompatible member of the family-theone James wasn't able to control.
The notorious scoundrel
2
A similar number recommended seats that were incompatible with the tester's car.
The Guardian
3
The bank's new strategy shows the two goals may have been incompatible.
Reuters
4
This is incompatible with the political universalisation of a secularist world view.
The Irish Times
5
Property is incompatible with political and civil equality; then property is impossible.
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of ...
1
But the moment was unsuited for further endeavour in the New World.
The Mariner of St. Malo : A chronicle of the voyages of Jacques ...
2
Erlendur had always found Níels lazy and absolutely unsuited for detective work.
The draining lake
3
Carter a fine, intelligent, dedicated man, but unsuited to lead the nation.
The new yorker
4
I saw an unsuited figure stalking towards me, hand gun flung out.
Broken angels
5
Casks of wood are unsuited for African travel; small beetles perforate them.
Ismailia
1
Even these charms faded under the sufferings attendant on an ill-sorted match.
Waverley Novels — Volume 12
2
It is pity people are so ill-sorted.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
3
They walked along in silence, the most ill-sorted pair that you might hope to find in all that higgledy-piggledy city.
Cheerful—By Request
4
It seems a great pity that the principle of personal freedom should be responsible for so many ill-shaped and ill-sorted physical incompetents.
Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army
5
There was plenty enough, but the dishes were ill-sorted; whole pyramids of sweetmeats, for boys and women; but little of solid meat, for men.
The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 / With Life, Critica...
Usage of mismated in English
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They often spoke of the pathetic loneliness of this good-looking, kindly, mismated woman.
In the Days of Poor Richard
2
Following the hungry question of her mismated eyes, the doctor gravely nodded his head.
Destiny
3
How crooked were all the mismated planets at my birth!
The Purchase Price; Or, The Cause of Compromise
4
The two marvelous and mismated eyes looked at them all and did not see them.
Destiny
5
Charity could not help pondering the situation, for she saw that Jim was hopelessly mismated.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
6
Number Twelve opened his mismated eyes in astonishment.
The Monster Men
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When you found that we were hopelessly mismated.
Sleeping Fires: a Novel
8
His low forehead hung over burning, mismated eyes.
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
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Then he realized the delicate white-and-pink glow of her complexion and a marvelous pair of mismated eyes.
Destiny
10
It was indeed her misfortune, as one says, that this gentle dove was mismated with an eagle.
The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians
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The reflection came that the mismated in this present age must ordinarily bear the burden to the end.
A Man and a Woman
12
Young Edwardes had read of the weird beauty of such mismated eyes, but had never before seen them.
Destiny
13
It is quite as easy to arrange them in this way as to gather in an ill-assorted, mismated collection.
The Complete Home
14
There is also a ritual of mixing; syrups and liqueurs all have their chosen mates and are never mismated.
A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees
15
Unhappy and mismated marriages, without means of rectification, are the curse of civilization, the living, gnawing cancer of society.
Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information
16
Better be alone than mismated.
Miriam Monfort / A Novel
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