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misprize

[mis-prahyz] / mɪsˈpraɪz /




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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

Yet she would not speak her thought, lest he should misprize her.

From Tales from the Old French by Various

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

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

But now the Atridae to a cunning knave, My exploits misprized, have surrendered them.

From Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles by Goldwin Smith

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

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

She burst into tears and flung her arms about Magdaléna's neck: she was always miserable when those she loved were angry with her, much as she delighted to shock the misprized.

From The Californians by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

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

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

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

"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




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