misprize
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They misrepresent the U. S. at Oxford and misprize it at home.
From Time Magazine Archive
It has become something of the mode to misprize Galsworthy.
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
Yet she would not speak her thought, lest he should misprize her.
From Tales from the Old French by Various
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
But first of all she visited the hairdressing and manicuring department: she meant to be altogether spick-and-span before venturing forth to woo and win anew this old and misprized lover, her New York.
From Joan Thursday by Louis Joseph Vance
These lords, to whom their comrade was dear, felt little joy to see so stout a knight misprized.
From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by Marie de France
Mama Thérèse marched ahead with forbidding frown and quivering chins, with the militant carriage of misprized and affronted rectitude.
From Red Masquerade by Louis Joseph Vance
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
Within the perspective of the street but three shapes stirred; Lanyard and the girl in the shadow of the wall, and a disconsolate, misprized cat that promptly decamped like a terror-stricken ghost.
From The Lone Wolf A Melodrama by Louis Joseph Vance
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
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
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