Meaning of mislove | Babel Free

Definitions

To love wrongly, insufficiently, inadequately, or imperfectly.

transitive

Examples

“Milkman "want(s) to get rich" on his own accord, so he misloves a woman (treats her like a whore) and gets an old car to ramble through ancestral homelands in search of gold.”

“I often yelled these words like a mad man at those I thought were guilty of my guilt: “the stabbing dagger of half-baked feeling," I would shriek in their faces, and in pain — "Love indeed!"— at those beings who had misloved me so, even though they had probably tried their best.”

“Goods such as bodily pleasure, or worldly fame and honor, or even human souls themselves are misloved unless loved for the sake of God .”

“The way my parents and I believed and disbelieved in each other when I was little, the way we created and confused, encouraged and thwarted, loved and misloved each other, is a sad story.”

“The motif of writing a dead woman into text is, of course, far from new in 1939: it is a staple of the French récit (from Manon Lescaut via Adolphe, Carmen, Sylvie, up to and beyond Gide's own four récits), in which a young man confesses how he loved, misloved, was misloved and lost.”

“I do this because as a girl I learned that sex is love from my father, the first dangerous man who sexually misloved me.”

“We shall greet the new face of tomorrow and I shall say to this daughter of mine: "I gave birth to you, but I misloved you."”

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