misprize
Example Sentences
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It has become something of the mode to misprize Galsworthy.
From Time Magazine Archive
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They misrepresent the U. S. at Oxford and misprize it at home.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
Yet she would not speak her thought, lest he should misprize her.
From Tales from the Old French by Various
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.