disprize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of disprize
1425–75; late Middle English disprisen < Anglo-French, Middle French despriser, late variant of despreis ( i ) er to dispraise
Example Sentences
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You disprize your easy one For some one's high and breezy one.
From Impertinent Poems by Edmund Vance Cooke
And especially from Dixie, the capricious; otherwise, she might win him by a glance and a smile, and then disprize him forever.
From Bat Wing Bowles by Dane Coolidge
It gives one such a superior air to disprize with easy scorn this greatest of the Gateways of the World.
From The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
There’s a big difference between despised love and disprized love, and between a proud man’s contumely and a poor man’s contumely.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
Truly the "pangs of disprized love" seemed hers.
From Little Citizens by Myra Kelly
Perhaps because Mary was always either consciously or subconsciously listening for the recalling shrieks of the abandoned and disprized gift of God.
From New Faces by Charles F. Neagle
She wanted to talk to Jim because she felt so disprized and downtrodden that she wanted to see somebody who adored her.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
Her jealous shame at being disprized and notoriously neglected had given her wanness and bitterness, instead of warmth and sweetness.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
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