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Mismatched   /mɪsmˈætʃt/   Listen
Mismatched

adjective
1.
Either not matched or unsuitably matched.
2.
(of a contest or contestants) not fairly matched as opponents.  Synonym: uneven.



Mismatch

verb
1.
Match badly; match two objects or people that do not go together.






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"Mismatched" Quotes from Famous Books



... room opened, letting through a blend of talk and small mechanical noises. It also emitted a strikingly mismatched couple. ...
— Fee of the Frontier • Horace Brown Fyfe

... up like black stalagmites from the comers of his cavernous mouth, was accompanied by two nondescript figures, who seemed to be embarrassed more by the fact that they had been recently cleansed and shaved than by their rough red shirts and mismatched coats and trousers. ...
— The Perils of Pauline • Charles Goddard

... he knew, and the events that he had experienced Out There, were like myths, now. How could he ever put Here and There together, and unite the mismatched halves of himself and his experience? He had been born on Earth, the single home of his kind from the beginning. How could he ever even have been ...
— The Planet Strappers • Raymond Zinke Gallun

... as to why a purely innocent Opdyke was chosen as an object of wrathful vengeance. Then he immediately went panicky. That's the erratic strain in him. Up to a certain point, he's logical; then he gets into a seething mass of mismatched syllogisms. In this case, if Providence was good, and you also were good, then Providence wouldn't have knocked you into a cocked hat. No matter now about the sympathy of my phrase; I want you to get the gist of the whole situation. Well, he turned and twisted that around into form AAA, EAE, ...
— The Brentons • Anna Chapin Ray

... Transcriber's Notes: Mismatched quotes have been normalized. "L'eat, c'est moi." corrected to "L'etat, c'est moi." Recalicitant corrected to recalcitrant. Other oddities in spelling and punctuation have been left as ...
— Hugo - A Fantasia on Modern Themes • Arnold Bennett



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