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misalliance

[ UK /mɪsɐlˈa‍ɪ‍əns/ ]
NOUN
  1. an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage)

How To Use misalliance In A Sentence

  • This is why, Majrouh wrote, landays are "a cry of separation" from the idea of love and a revelation of the misery of misalliance.
  • The interrelationship between the characters too, echoes the constellation of the German Enlightenment dramas of G. E. Lessing and Friedrich Schiller, complete with a symbolic father/son conflict and various misalliances.
  • Girls of Sidwell's delicacy do not misally themselves, for they take into account the fact that such misalliance is fraught with elements of unhappiness, affecting husband as much as wife. Born in Exile
  • The classic liberal position is that it is essentially a misalliance. Outlook India
  • When the male-female pairs aren't demonstrating strident misalliance or hopeless anomie, they confront one another as units destined for mutual inscrutability.
  • Some even went so far as to assert that he was already married, and that it was in order to escape the consequence of an early misalliance that he had buried himself at Bishop's Crossing.
  • After all, the plot involved pretty hoary subjects: a misalliance between social unequals and the eternal love triangle. Times, Sunday Times
  • Madama Butterfly is a tragedy of cultural misalliance, the swift and bloody ending of which has none of the comfort and emotional certainty associated with popular operas such as La Traviata and La Bohme.
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