ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Mislove

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Mislove is a verb meaning (transitive) To love wrongly, insufficiently, inadequately, or imperfectly.

Meaning

(transitive) To love wrongly, insufficiently, inadequately, or imperfectly.

More Meanings

  1. Inadequate, imperfect, or misdirected love.
  2. The act or object of misloving.

Example Sentences

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

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Related dictionary entries include mislike, misprovide, misgive, misdispose, mislook, miskeep.

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