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give someone the brush-off
vs
misprize
give someone the brush-off
verb
To rebuff, snub or curtly reject someone.
misprize
verb
To despise or hold in contempt; to undervalue.
How often have the words
give someone the brush-off
and
misprize
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)