mispreserve

Verb

mispreserve (third-person singular simple present mispreserves, present participle mispreserving, simple past and past participle mispreserved)

1. To preserve badly or to preserve something that does not merit preservation.
   • There is no positive evidence of the fact, but that proposition was raised is the exact reason why it is provided in the election law that you can't open a ballot box and can't take any cognizance of ballots that have been so mispreserved.1917, United States Congressional Serial Set - Volume 7300, page 54
   • Here was Lancashire heavily weighted again with the exuberance of the Victorians, with pictures of ladies made of the smoothest china, of yearning children, of dear little cats, and dogs, and donkeys , with all the oil paint sunsets and sticky landscapes, the only excellent thing about them being...1936, Walter Wilkinson, Puppets Through Lancashire, page 81