misvenerate

From mis- +‎ venerate.

misvenerate (third-person singular simple present misvenerates, present participle misvenerating, simple past and past participle misvenerated)

1. To venerate something or someone that does not deserve it.
   • 2004, T. A. Ralph Evans, Lordship and Learning: Studies in Memory of Trevor Aston, page 201:

     Images were surely often misread — and misvenerated — and by the sixteenth century reformers were all too ready to exploit such mistakes.

   • 2013 July 14, “Epigrammatic Exuviae”, in SalmonBerg‎:

     And lest you retort in some weak revenged-filled-yet-nevertheless-impotent insult: “twat doth a misvenerated drulltonic-for-the-masses composor of catchy-one-off, unmotley motifas sentimentally overwrought for on-screen antsy kiddie manga know-a-whiff-and-shiver of reel awe-thespian spate-conjuring awthentic squidjuice-to-bark etchying??

   • 2015, H. Graham Lowry, How The Nation Was Won:

     War between England and France, to be known as Queen Anne's War, had already broken out in 1701, effectively placing control of the new Queen's government under the commander of British forces, John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, whose family spawned generations of everything from genocidal colonialism and international drug trafficking to Winston Churchill, that misvenerated encyclopedia of all their vices.