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• v  provide with an unsuitable mate
• s  not easy to combine harmoniously

• Unaware or uninterested that the two are mismated, the matchmakers give their efforts much more sense of ravishment than of matrimony.
• George Kelly's acid portrait of a malicious woman that opens out into a group picture of mismated lives (PTI, April 2).
• The lovers seem wildly mismated, though perhaps they are only miscast.

• mismate
• ill-sorted
• incompatible
• unsuited