"mishmash" is a perfectly acceptable and usable word in written English.
It usually refers to a confused or disorderly mixture of different things or people. For example, you could say: "The party was a mishmash of different ages and cultures, all coming together to celebrate."
The landscape is a rubbly mishmash of the old, new, the half-knocked down and partly rebuilt.
O'Malley is a mishmash of a stray Kennedy and the type of policy obsessive who even thinktanks keep locked away in a back office cubicle.
Yours sincerely, Henry Porter From: Tony Blair To Henry Porter Subjectt: Liberty Dear Henry Porter, Frankly it's difficult to know where to start, given the mishmash of misunderstanding, gross exaggeration and things that are just plain wrong.
In the midst of menswear fashion shows in Paris, when I'm normally wearing my own ragtag mishmash of outre London designers, a heavy dose of Comme des Garçons and offbeat vintage pieces, I tried my hand at French chic à la Valentine.
The capital is St George's, a pastel-coloured mishmash of sun-worn buildings that cluster round the picturesque horseshoe harbour.
And both they and those who operate in them are overseen by a complicated mishmash of government rules and regulations, designed (at least purportedly) to protect investors.
They're too big to fit easily in a wallet or passport, and they're a poorly organised mishmash of information of various degrees of importance.
Mr Perot's ideas were a mishmash of sense (balanced budgets, campaign-finance reform) and xenophobic rubbish; but he was liberal on social matters, and could never be accused of being moralistic.The ideal Reform Party candidate would seem to be more like two other politicians whose independence marks them out.
Today's document is a legal mishmash, part dating from the communist era, part from 1990 when the Soviet block collapsed and the rest from last year, when the right-wing Fidesz party won a two-thirds majority.
An often defensive and secretive Chinese bureaucracy up against a bewilderingly complex mishmash of competing interests in America will not make for harmony.
But it has always been a mishmash of evolving and often conflicting ideas rather than a coherent creed.
