misprize

Example Sentences

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Yet she would not speak her thought, lest he should misprize her.

From Project Gutenberg

But she had pictured to herself a sort of Mary Blanchet in trousers, a gentle, old-fashioned, timid person, whom, perhaps, the outer world was apt to misprize, if not even to snub, and whom therefore it became her, Minola Grey, as an enemy and outlaw of the common world, to receive with double consideration.

From Project Gutenberg

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

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 Project Gutenberg