misprize
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It has become something of the mode to misprize Galsworthy.
From Time Magazine Archive
They misrepresent the U. S. at Oxford and misprize it at home.
From Time Magazine Archive
But of course she wasn't; youth will ever misprize till it must mourn its blessings.
From Nobody by W. L. Jacobs
He could not conceive how a girl possessed of ordinary faculties could possibly misprize her father's gifts.
From Brooke's Daughter A Novel by Adeline Sergeant
The grand discovery they misprize, As, in amaze, they stand around; One prates of gnomes and sorceries, Another of the sable hound.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Kuno Francke
Neither had Daubeney's devotion meant a great deal: being something too familiar through old acquaintance not to be misprized.
From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Louis Joseph Vance
The once uncanny, misprized, even accursed city, since surnamed Montpellier-le-Vieux, from a fancied resemblance to Montpellier, is now very differently regarded by its humble owners.
From The Roof of France by Matilda Betham-Edwards
He was always misprized in thy Court, and his every action turned to blame.
From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by Marie de France
Margaret Fuller secured good copy and the cordial and lifelong dislike of Hawthorne, all through misprized love, alas!
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Elbert Hubbard
No cheapness of cynicism will persuade a young man that he does not suffer genuine anguish when under this pang of misprized love.
From The Dictator by Justin McCarthy
But how was he to know that in misprizing Willie Price before her, he was misprizing a child to its mother?
From Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
But the white bull, though he had underrated his former antagonist, was in no danger of misprizing this one.
From The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories by Charles Livingston Bull
"I knew you had lost your money," she replied, with an air of misprizing such sordid considerations.
From Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book by Emma G. Moore
Behind her homesickness for her idol, Napier detected a great relief at the idol's being out of the way of suspicion and misprizing.
From The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins
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