misprize
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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
But of course she wasn't; youth will ever misprize till it must mourn its blessings.
From Nobody by W. L. Jacobs
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
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 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
Mama Thérèse marched ahead with forbidding frown and quivering chins, with the militant carriage of misprized and affronted rectitude.
From Red Masquerade by Louis Joseph Vance
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
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.
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
"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
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
