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
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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 I would not misprize the cats of Seville, which apparently have their money price.
From Familiar Spanish Travels by William Dean Howells
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
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 William Dean Howells
He had no childhood; his salad days were bitter herbs; his later life was one wild tempest of ambition frustrated, of love unsated or unreturned, of friendship misprized or thought to be misprized.
From The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 by Rupert Hughes
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
No cheapness of cynicism will persuade a young man that he does not suffer genuine anguish when under this pang of misprized love.
From The Dictator by Justin McCarthy
Mama Thérèse marched ahead with forbidding frown and quivering chins, with the militant carriage of misprized and affronted rectitude.
From Red Masquerade by Louis Joseph Vance
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
"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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