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Answer for the clue "Unsuitable pairing ", 8 letters:
mismatch

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Word definitions for mismatch in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from mis- (1) + match (v.). Related: Mismatched ; mismatching .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mismatch \Mis*match"\, v. t. To match unsuitably.

Usage examples of mismatch.

Here bobs and smiles from both wealthily green-masked puppets and homeless puppets in rags and mismatched shoes and with used surgical masks, all made by E.

He wore an unusual ensemble of mismatched riding garb and his customary wide-brimmed hat.

The nose was both fleshy and aquiline and mediated well between the top and bottom halves of the face, but the mouth was a mismatch of left and right sides that left the lips peculiarly twisted.

The prince had strange, mismatched eyes and platinum hair that harkened back to what his father might have looked like in youth.

A pair of mismatched sentries greeted them from behind the towering metal bars.

I had stood here a week ago and seen the two mismatched pieces of reality clash against each other.

The group of mismatched and poorly trained civilians, most of them with little battle experience, could hardly be called militia.

His bedroom furniture consisted of a box spring and double mattress on a steel frame, one nightstand, and a mismatched chest of drawers.

Organs and blood vessels were warped and displaced, the lungs mismatched and the spleen elongated like a fish.

The men wore mismatched pieces of armor: wooden knuckle mitts, articulated steel greaves, hornmail, ringmail, pothelms, spikehelms, metal plate, boiled leather, coats of shell and bone.

One man in green and yellow plaid trousers, mismatched with a red and blue striped windbreaker, set them all off again.

He was wearing a mismatched, stained, and ill-fitting ensemble, in spite of the elegance of the gathering.

The driver, dressed in mismatched livery, insisted on a fee three times the normal rate, and that in coin.

Those odd, mismatched eyes met his and she smiled, dimpling charmingly.

Caet looked into her odd, mismatched eyes, she saw a keen intelligence, and an understanding that had her wanting to shift on her feet.