: a marriage between persons unsuited to each other
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebFarber 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