mismatch

My dinner guests — fellow backpackers — set eight places at the table with an assortment of mismatched silverware pulled from kitchen drawers.

With each tree, flower, fruit or animal species reacting slightly differently to our changing climate, there may become a mismatch of events.

I am surprised at how I’ve grown to care about this couple who seem mismatched in many ways — starting with their age but also their entire personalities.

His entire career seems mismatched to this perilous fork in history's road.

Kelly went on to say that the series “was just a mismatch from the get-go” and that the Yankees might be considered the “eighth- or ninth-best playoff team” from last fall.