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  • adjective Not matching.

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non- +‎ matching

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Examples

  • The cupboards are mostly bare, except for a few nonmatching dishes and glasses.

    GONE LISA McMANN 2010

  • The cupboards are mostly bare, except for a few nonmatching dishes and glasses.

    GONE LISA McMANN 2010

  • The cupboards are mostly bare, except for a few nonmatching dishes and glasses.

    GONE LISA McMANN 2010

  • The cupboards are mostly bare, except for a few nonmatching dishes and glasses.

    GONE LISA McMANN 2010

  • Men might remove a tie or wear dress pants and a nonmatching jacket.

    Business Casual: 2008

  • Franklin came back in with the coffee, which was a thin own-brand brew in three nonmatching pottery mugs, two of them chipped, on a cork bar tray, with an open carton of half-and-half and a yellow box of sugar and a single pressed-steel spoon.

    One Shot Child, Lee 2005

  • I could switch to haloscan (actually did it for about a week and switched back) but I don't like the pop up box, the nonmatching look between the comment box and the blog, and there is no notification (although it may have been there and I missed it).

    Looking For A New Place Nathaniel Livingston 2004

  • Mixed in with gap-toothed combs and nonmatching cufflinks and broken-winged sunglasses and squeezed-out tubes of various lotions and ointments were worn-looking brass knuckles, a red domino mask, a Mickey Mouse mask, a ski mask, three right-handed rubber gloves, a false mustache mounted on a white card in a clear plastic bag, a sprinkling of subway slugs, and as advertised, a pair of chrome handcuffs with the key in the lock.

    Drowned Hopes Westlake, Donald E. 1990

  • Why would people choose to get seasonal flu shots when there was a nonmatching viral outbreak?

    Flu Wiki Forum - Front Page 2010

  • The correct but nonmatching 340 engine has been rebuilt with a hot street Mopar cam and Holley 600cfm 4-barrel carburetor, and is still fitted with the factory upswept HP exhaust manifolds, factory cast iron intake manifold, factory electronic ignition, and factory air cleaner assembly.

    AutaBuy.com | Newest Listings 2010

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