misprize
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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
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 of course she wasn't; youth will ever misprize till it must mourn its blessings.
From Nobody by W. L. Jacobs
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
A voice for all whom Fate hath set apart, Who, still misprized, must perish by the way, Longing with love, for that they lack the art Of their own soul's expression.
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Emma Lazarus
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
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
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
Neither had Daubeney's devotion meant a great deal: being something too familiar through old acquaintance not to be misprized.
From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Louis Joseph Vance
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
"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
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
