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misalliance

noun

mis·​al·​li·​ance ˌmi-sə-ˈlī-ən(t)s How to pronounce misalliance (audio)
1
: an improper alliance
2
b
: a marriage between persons unsuited to each other

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Farber set the tragedy in a bleak Scottish no man’s land, where a mournful cello underscores a doleful marital misalliance. Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2021 Ultimately, Malinowski concludes, the relationship between nobles and Nazis was a misalliance in which attraction prevailed over repulsion. Christopher R. Browning, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021 Clare was the unfortunate evidence of that misalliance. Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021

Word History

Etymology

modification of French mésalliance

First Known Use

1738, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of misalliance was in 1738

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