misprize

Example Sentences

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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

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 Francke, Kuno

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

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

From Nobody by Jacobs, W. L.