misprize

Example Sentences

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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

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 Sergeant, Adeline

But of course she wasn't; youth will ever misprize till it must mourn its blessings.

From Nobody by Jacobs, W. L.

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 Howells, William Dean