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
But of course she wasn't; youth will ever misprize till it must mourn its blessings.
From Nobody by Jacobs, W. L.
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
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
