misalliance
noun
mis·al·li·ance
ˌmi-sə-ˈlī-ən(t)s 
1
: an improper alliance
2
a
b
: a marriage between persons unsuited to each other
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Despite the social chasm that separated the German nobility from the Nazi mass movement, common enemies and shared aversions provided one foundation for the misalliance.
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Christopher R. Browning, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
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
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Christopher R. Browning, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
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
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“Misalliance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/misalliance. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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