misprize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of misprize
1300–50; Middle English misprise < Middle French mesprisier, equivalent to mes- mis- 1 + prisier to prize 2
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
Yet I would not misprize the cats of Seville, which apparently have their money price.
From Familiar Spanish Travels 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
Yet she would not speak her thought, lest he should misprize her.
From Tales from the Old French by Various
He was always misprized in thy Court, and his every action turned to blame.
From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by France, Marie de
Mama Thérèse marched ahead with forbidding frown and quivering chins, with the militant carriage of misprized and affronted rectitude.
From Red Masquerade by Vance, Louis Joseph
Neither had Daubeney's devotion meant a great deal: being something too familiar through old acquaintance not to be misprized.
From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Vance, Louis Joseph
A voice for all whom Fate hath set apart, Who, still misprized, must perish by the way, Longing with love, for that they lack the art Of their own soul's expression.
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Lazarus, Emma
At the instant of seeing, came that swift and mighty revulsion that follows surely when we have misprized and misunderstood those dear to us.
From The Power and the Glory by Keller, Arthur Ignatius
"I knew you had lost your money," she replied, with an air of misprizing such sordid considerations.
From Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book by Moore, Emma G.
But how was he to know that in misprizing Willie Price before her, he was misprizing a child to its mother?
From Anna of the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold
Behind her homesickness for her idol, Napier detected a great relief at the idol's being out of the way of suspicion and misprizing.
From The Messenger by Robins, Elizabeth
But the white bull, though he had underrated his former antagonist, was in no danger of misprizing this one.
From The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories by Bull, Charles Livingston
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