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

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 Howells, William Dean

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 Francke, Kuno

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