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
People are too apt to misprize this sort of politeness of mere habit; yet, as far as it goes, it is an excellent thing.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various
Such honor, it seems probable, will soon be the reward of civic virtue in women as well as men, and we hope women will not misprize it.
From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells
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
He had no childhood; his salad days were bitter herbs; his later life was one wild tempest of ambition frustrated, of love unsated or unreturned, of friendship misprized or thought to be misprized.
From The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 by Rupert Hughes
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
A voice for all whom Fate hath set apart, Who, still misprized, must perish by the way, Longing with love, for that they lack the art Of their own soul's expression.
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Emma Lazarus
No such compromises are necessary with 'the fauna of the tiles,' who, with his larger-sized victim, the rat, has been the most misprized and misjudged of all animals, from the culinary point of view.
From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.
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
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 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
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
"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
