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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
mismate .
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Examples
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The brown stocking of the two mismates she had brought along almost matched the pair she was wearing.
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The brown stocking of the two mismates she had brought along almost matched the pair she was wearing.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise David Graham Phillips 1889
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They were two men who had reached a point of perfect community of tastes and inclinations, though they came together in two widely different starting-places -- though they were so little alike to outward seeming that they were known among their friends as "the mismates."
Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches Kenneth [Illustrator] Frazier 1875
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