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
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 Adeline Sergeant
Yet I would not misprize the cats of Seville, which apparently have their money price.
From Familiar Spanish Travels by William Dean Howells
The once uncanny, misprized, even accursed city, since surnamed Montpellier-le-Vieux, from a fancied resemblance to Montpellier, is now very differently regarded by its humble owners.
From The Roof of France by Matilda Betham-Edwards
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.
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
These lords, to whom their comrade was dear, felt little joy to see so stout a knight misprized.
From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by Marie de France
Within the perspective of the street but three shapes stirred; Lanyard and the girl in the shadow of the wall, and a disconsolate, misprized cat that promptly decamped like a terror-stricken ghost.
From The Lone Wolf A Melodrama by Louis Joseph Vance
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
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 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
"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
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