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

But of course she wasn't; youth will ever misprize till it must mourn its blessings.

From Nobody by Jacobs, W. L.

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