misalliance

Examples

• All

• In literature, examples of sexual misalliances by writers of Degas's own generation are legion.

  Academic text (1993)

• The union of poetry and commerce is not necessarily an infernal beauty-and-the-beast misalliance, but neither is it a marriage made in heaven.

  Academic text (2014)

• The lawyer calls it misalliance.

  Fiction book (1990)

• His father-in-law had often blamed him because he was not of similar birth to his daughter and said that their marriage was a misalliance.

  Academic text (2018)

• They were wary, both single after certain emotional and logistical misalliances.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Discouraging misalliances with lower nobility, aristocratic families married among each other regardless of ethnic origin.

  Academic text (2014)

• McCaslin, M., & Good, T. L. (1992). Compliant cognition: The misalliance of management and instructional goals in current school reform. Educational Researcher, 21(3), 4-17.

  Academic text (2012)

• Their marriage was viewed as a misalliance since she came from a wealthy family while he struggled to make ends meet.

• The community considered their partnership a misalliance due to their stark differences in values and social status.

• The gossip surrounding the couple suggested their love was a misalliance, as they were from completely different backgrounds.

Synonyms

M

mismatch

vsmisalliance

22 3.6

A combination of people or things that do not go well together

is used for relationships judged unsuitable due to social rank or background

I

incongruity

vsmisalliance

6 8.0

A situation where something does not fit or seem right

is applied to relationships seen as socially inappropriate or inconsistent in values

Antonyms

A

alliance

567 4.0

A formal agreement between countries or groups to work together

How Appropriate

alliance

567 4.0

partnership

325 2.7

misalliance

• Literature

1 9.9

to mismatch

1 4.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology