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
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
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
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
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
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
No cheapness of cynicism will persuade a young man that he does not suffer genuine anguish when under this pang of misprized love.
From The Dictator by Justin McCarthy
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 was always misprized in thy Court, and his every action turned to blame.
From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by Marie de France
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 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
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
