misloving

Verb

mislove (third-person singular simple present misloves, present participle misloving, simple past and past participle misloved)

1. (transitive) To love wrongly, insufficiently, inadequately, or imperfectly.
   • 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.1979, Explorations in Ethnic Studies, page 42

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