mislove

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.

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.

Inadequate, imperfect, or misdirected love.

To a large extent, the mislove of the world is caused by lack of imagination. Your mother cannot recall her own youth, and so fails to project her personality into your later-generation thoughts and ambitions.

Triple-lipped Apollo, I consign Your visitation to the night, When, amid cavernous mislove, your orbs Large with anticipate lust must diminish As, beneath my smothering embrace, The shocks your nine limbs striving to impart Shudder into the gentle heaving of sleeping.

The act or object of misloving.

" […] their friendships, their loves, their “misloves," that the world instantly set her down as a spinster, a clever woman, but a double-twisted old maid.

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis RC 14567 by Max Shulman narrated by Roy Avers 2 cassettes Eleven humorous short stories about the adventures and misadventures, loves and misloves of Dobie Gillis on the University of Minneapolis campus.