mislove

Example Sentences

• "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."