verb
- to live badly, immorally, or in a way that is wrong or undesirable
Usage: archaic or literary; transitive or intransitive
Examples
- He mislived his youth in pursuit of fleeting pleasures.
- To mislive is to waste the gift of existence.
- She regretted having mislived her early years.
- The character mislived according to his base instincts.
- One should not mislive simply because others do.