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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They misrepresent the U. S. at Oxford and misprize it at home.
From Time Magazine Archive
It has become something of the mode to misprize Galsworthy.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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 Kuno Francke
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 Marie de France
But now the Atridae to a cunning knave, My exploits misprized, have surrendered them.
From Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles by Goldwin Smith
With a broader outlook and a better understanding she might have protested on behalf of a slighted neighborhood, or, indeed, of a misprized town.
From With the Procession by Henry Blake Fuller
She burst into tears and flung her arms about Magdaléna's neck: she was always miserable when those she loved were angry with her, much as she delighted to shock the misprized.
From The Californians by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
No such compromises are necessary with 'the fauna of the tiles,' who, with his larger-sized victim, the rat, has been the most misprized and misjudged of all animals, from the culinary point of view.
From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.
"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 Emma G. Moore
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 Arnold Bennett
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 Elizabeth Robins
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 Charles Livingston Bull
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