Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Improperly allied or connected; affected by a misalliance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Wrongly allied or associated.
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- adjective Wrongly allied or associated.
Etymologies
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Examples
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They are a misallied and disparaged branch of the house of Nimrod.
Paras. 60-83 1909
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Bourbon, misallied with one of the greatest families of Europe, staking her fortune on a Royalist plot, and yet with so instinctive
Nonsense Novels Stephen Leacock 1906
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A young woman, cursed with nice white teeth and lovely hands: for these beauties being misallied to homely features, had turned her head.
The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849
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They are a misallied and disparaged branch of the House of Nimrod.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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Craftily misallied to the saying "You are what you eat", it offers a hideous picture of GM-eaters transformed into monsters: walking insecticide containers (a natural insecticide called Bt is the key component of most GM plants) or fish/tomato hybrids (researchers tried to give the vegetable the cold-resistance of an Arctic flounder).
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