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Sentence Examples A clueless cad tries to woo a lady with his self-produced song and macho posturing, interpreting her disdain as approval. And I suspect that it's a linguistic universal for farm animals, crops and food products to figure in terms of disdain and abuse. French electors today embark on the first round of the presidential elections with an unparalleled disdain for politics. His commander was obsessed with inter-allied cooperation and Fredendall's open disdain was a direct challenge. And it is this disdain for the other kind of ambition that has led observers to describe him as unserious. Which is why those most deserving of reciprocal loyalty are treated with the greatest disdain. But when he talks about it, it's more with incomprehension than snobbish disdain. One can disdain the cult of personality, but one cannot dismiss the look of radiant delight on her friends' faces as they cluster around her. This disdain for the killer instinct, however, has its risks, as American Lindsay Jacobellis discovered on Friday in the women's snowboard cross. I would like the predatorial upcharges and gotcha fees and general disdain toward the customer removed. He is also very arrogant, showing disdain for those who are not as observant or skilled as he is. The literary establishment's incoherent critique combines snobbish disdain for popular culture with an ahistorical philistinism. So why do certain animals invoke admiration while others inspire pity or disdain? They all start off with a bit of fight in them, you know the old total lack of respect and total disdain for the law. Despite my general disdain for the community at large, community service would be somewhat pointless without it. I haven't seen such raw arrogance, such disdain for democratic principle, such ham-handed use of power, since J.R. and Dallas bit the dust. In this case, I find it difficult to understand why there's so much hatred and disdain for this movie. Secondly, progressives should perhaps rethink their own disdain for service-based outreach programs. Combining foxy irony with withering disdain, McDiarmid presents us with the tragedy of a man for whom the mask has become the face. Descartes, of course, was not the first philosopher to view the body with disdain. Show More Sentences He stoops to sign in, then turns to the friend with an expression of haughty disdain. Scientists will have to step out of their laboratories and humanists will have to give up their haughty disdain for modernity. Luckily for some of us there is still a healthy amount of hostility and disdain in both of these lovely little cities to balance things out. Given the climate of opinion, she would be foolish to describe them with anything other than mere disdain. But it's Broom, with her self-depreciating good humour and withering disdain for modern materialism, that makes the book so compelling. Unkind souls may consider that this will be akin to filling an empty space with a hole, but I disdain such cattishness. His ideas themselves went against the dirigiste orthodoxies of his age and discipline, and earned him much disdain and opprobrium. The editors correctly mention the fear and respect that Nahuas had for Otomi prowess in war but fail to mention their equally strong disdain. Cheered by dynastic thoughts, he forgets his disdain for the wedding-favour, a chaplet of carnations, he is obliged to wear. Despite his disdain for much about the town at the time, the rector was optimistic about the future. Despite his evident disdain for her, he still seemed uncomfortable arresting a woman who had been his friend and colleague for many years. We are pretty sure surly activity and passive disdain isn't the way to happiness. Workers, critics surmised, must surely feel slighted, insulted, and mocked by such acts of disdain. She looked down in mild surprise and disdain before breaking off the shaft and holding it up to inspect it more closely. Either he will hotly deny the accusation, or he will attempt to justify his disdain for or hatred of women. She sniffed sullenly, as if trying to emphasize her disdain, but only sounded rather pathetic. We all know the disdain with which we view pale and insipid iceberg lettuce. The Nephyl looked around in icy disdain at the soldiers resting underneath dark trees. He spoke with such fondness of the tuna melt, that despite my disdain for tinned tuna, I felt compelled to try one. The Italians who owned the hotel were miserable gits whom I felt treated our party with disdain because they were older people. Show More Sentences His contempt for ineptitude as well as his disdain for those who held opinions contrary to his was legendary. Those who have it, use it, with condescension and casual disdain for those on the receiving end. Despite her disdain for the class and it's students, Angelique had better luck than most of them. Many contributors were Trinity graduates, parading classical learning and disdain for the vulgar. Their gender bias led to disdain for women teachers who had not been trained by men. The cabinet was deaccessioned in 1929, a victim of twentieth-century disdain for the later nineteenth century. Toward the end of his life the fiery disdain of his youth died to warm embers. Indeed, the whole of the French governing elite maintained a lofty disdain for the episode. Will the Irish media engage, or will it maintain its lofty disdain for the president and his people? Given that organisation's lofty disdain for those of us working in the popular press, it is also very tempting to do so. What you need to cultivate here, as a composer, is an air of lofty disdain for us poor sweat-shop craftspeople down here. Unlike their British and American counterparts, French politicians have generally exhibited a lofty disdain for the concept of crafting an image. This Christmas, though, you won't have to go to an art house to see a film inspired by disdain for Christmas. In the novel, Henry's rugged individualism and disdain for society are stylizations of his father's misanthropy. Not all behavioral associationists, to be sure, shared Skinner's disdain for theory. It helps exonerate us, assuages our panic and provides a focus for our disdain and hate. The appeal of Los Gavilanes lies precisely in its English disdain for garishness. She spoke with disdain in her voice and openly insulted him, then had the audacity to look pleased with herself. The sheer audacity and disdain for privacy and civil liberties was amazing. Rather than show my disdain outright and attach my friend's moral shortcomings, I started to ruminate a more edifying scheme. Show More Sentences They were the fellow travellers who prided themselves on their cultural cultivation and their disdain for the brutish loyalty of party members. But his personal asceticism and disdain for the managerialism of modern politics brought its own difficulties. After a few semesters at Yale or Harvard, it's easy to disdain the rough-and-tumble of the market and the inequality of trickle down economics. He nodded abruptly, but his eyes were still filled with displeasure and disdain. If the right-wingers disdain Lincoln for being too aggressively antislavery, the left-wingers scorn him for not being antislavery enough. The true secularist's distrust of the 'order of prophecy' can turn his indifference towards religion into actual disdain and contempt. They will remain hostile to any political party that seems to disdain their convictions. Accompanying this disdain for people is a self-righteous delusion that they alone are saving the planet with their steady diet of self-denial. Rastafarians were subjected to disdain, harassment and exclusion in Jamaica. The truth is, I've been externalising my inner self-hate through my disdain for all people and things geeky. The public has long been suspicious of big business, but the recent financial meltdowns have created even more disdain and distrust. I had an Iron Maiden Tshirt, despite having no affinity for the Maiden at all, and, in fact, a positive disdain. They aimed to cripple the machinery of war, not simply broaden disdain for it. We do it now or face the repercussions in the future, much to our dismay and disdain. So far at least, he has escaped the disdain which eventually greets any great champion who keeps trading punches well past his prime. Some look upon the women as trailblazers in a forbidden area, while many others hold them in disdain because of their frivolous character. Generally our messy shoulder length hair and denims invoked hostility and disdain from our elders and betters. Or does a whole lot of suffering stem from a disdain of creaturely dependence? India has served as one of the foreign Edens to which those Americans turn, in order to show their disdain for the United States. His disdain for our countrymen at the court of Queen Anne was almost pathological. Show More Sentences Those who disdain wealth as crass materialism need to understand that wealth is one of the biggest life-saving factors in the world. With a moue of disdain, she threw her only line of contact with Ruston Grady into the nearest waste bin. Some of these professors, self-proclaimed bluestockings, did disdain marriage. In their puritanical disdain for cigarettes, drunkenness, and rich food, the Bobos show themselves to be far more bourgeois than bohemian. Humans generally held him in high contempt, showing disdain for him in some places, utterly shunning him in others. Her disdain is getting personal, her subject matter less ephemeral, as she scolds rich Americans driven by wanderlust and entitlement. Chaplin made no secret of his disdain for stereophonic sound. In the immediate aftermath of the oil spill, apoplectic Southerners cast their disdain towards the North. He looked at the president when the president spoke, and his expression revealed no asperity or disdain. It was associated with government heavy-handedness and viewed with disdain. The belligerents in abortion wars disdain this search for compromise as mere equivocation, a flinching from deeper truths. In a culture that worships celebrities while pretending to disdain them, the Sony emails are catnip for the masses. There equal disdain between Black Africans and West Indians as there are between West Indians and Africans, which is clearly not based on skin color. West reserves the greatest disdain, however, for the consolations of religion. These were exceptions largely brought about by incompetent leadership, raw recruits, a disdain for the enemy, and involving an element of tactical surprise. He is a not just a grinning creationist, he is also willing to disdain Darwinism with a sinister pugnacity. They are quite likely to see right through you and your feckless ways, like Saffy in Absolutely Fabulous withering Edina and Patsy with her magnificently polished disdain. He has seen off those challenges with the same disdain that he has seen off the death threats, court appearances and kiss-and-tell stories that have plagued his private life. None of that is as important as the fact that the disdain for the dehumanization of extreme hip hop continues unabated. Many critics have disdain precisely for this strange messiness of his, this showmanship that dares to create a new order. Show More Sentences But if the sellers treat their products with such disdain and disrespect, why should consumers do otherwise? Simultaneously self-obsessed and self-assured, they think they know everything and look upon their elders with disdain. He has no use for the opinions people in Ontario may have, but continues to express the same disdain for the public that Mr Harris exhibited and apparently institutionalized. This disdain stems from anger at intrusive Congressional action and feckless Congressional inaction. He rocked his body at the mike, rolled his eyes, pulled back his lips in elegant disdain, and finished each sentence with a sensual guttural trail. But how much easier, he says with disdain, for those who just buy whiskey off the shelf and market it. Admittedly my man-bag has met with some disdain, but its usefulness outweighs that particular problem, and chances are the detractors would get one themselves if they could. Despite her disdain for the bad boys, they keep on pursuing her. On the other, superiority, disdain, guilt, and a fear of being befriended or loved for all the wrong reasons. Members of an upper class whose time is up, Fleming treat foreigners as objects of suspicion and disdain. In the past, it was almost compulsory to have a blocker, someone who would occasionally hit the bad ball but as likely to treat it with disdain in protection of his wicket. Vernon treats his students with nothing but disdain, verbally haranguing them every chance he gets. Sorel shared this disdain for patriotic and obscurantist bombast. Now, because he was her client, she tried to look with compassion instead of disdain or repugnance at his unskillful behavior and all the ways he shut himself off. It was the same snooty disdain masking the deep hurt she was feeling. That despicable cabal of neo-fascists, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission has shown its usual disdain for the public interest over the last two months. Dare the uppity saleswomen at Saks or Gucci treat her with disdain? The choice of the venue at that precise time was calculated to do the maximum damage to the prime minister and to highlight his lofty disdain for anyone who gainsays him. I'm don't feel the need to obstreperously express disdain for all sports. He made known his disdain for the demands of retail politics as he returned to the more private life of a writer and novelist. Show More Sentences Where dissent rears its ugly head let us behave with studied disdain and act as if some oik has committed some dreadful faux pas and ignore the blighter. When the national media deigned to pay any attention to it, it was invariably with snobbish disdain, hee-haw chuckling at the hillbilly music of athletics. Unhappiness fuels great disdain for all of suburbia and its inhabitants. Should I, this civic nationalist, disdain raw chauvinism, empathise with these nice, troubled young English people and remember just how badly they want this prize? Many of the weblogs that have come to my attention display a disdain for civil discourse and, to the extent they say anything at all, say it rather coarsely. Although people typically disdain thinking about close relationships in exchange terms, partners often do reciprocate favors and kindnesses toward each other. The hard-bitten cynic and skeptic smiles with inward pride when his friends chuckle over his well-wrought and ironic disdain for conventional pieties. Overall he is more politician than scientist, and he wouldn't be so insufferable if he didn't himself show such disdain for the people he says he wants to represent. She straightened and glanced at him from the corner of her eye in controlled disdain like she'd seen Rachel do when a suitor forgot himself with her. Thus, despite the black church's disdain for blues music, it is not surprising that black sacred and secular forms have cross-fertilized each other. On the way out to sea for exercises they clattered past lines of battleships and cruisers, from whose sparkling decks immaculate officers looked down on them with disdain. He spoke up quietly, his words dripping with frosty disdain. Sadly, however, I was witness to many more instances where dayanim treated women petitioners, as well as their female lawyers, with a disdain bordering on hostility. His eyes blaze with contempt and disdain for you and your people. Certainly, she's arrogant and her disdain for them is palpable. In an incredible display of arrogance and disdain for the fans, we had to search for our umbrellas among piles of them left in heaps on the floor. They disdain combat re-enactment, opting instead to show authentic training skills, precision marching and parade ground drill, to Latin commands. They are black-avised as warlocks and wear their black cowls with formality and disdain. At least Gordon Brown, so long the focus of Barry's unconcealed disdain, confined his emoting largely to behind the scenes. Platonically, the unfallen inhabitants of Malacandra disdain reading, preferring to know, and reaffirm what they know through conversation. Show More Sentences But it is the lot of goodness and truth ever to meet with misappreciation and disdain. This rationale and disdain for lawyer solicitation goes back to the 19th century, when state barratry statutes criminalized the conduct. Gervinus wrote with elitist disdain about the mechanicals of the play and their acting aspirations. The Parisian showboaters showed no disdain for their place in Europe's secondary competition with a 57-6 tonking of Crociati last Friday. The Act revealed a disdain for Swift, Pope, Fielding, and other literary figures who had attacked his government in their works. There would come a time when the Dadaists did not disdain the advances of the mainline art trade, but meanwhile kept their distance from it. Creative Review magazine liked the mascots, but elsewhere their design was greeted with some disdain. The four bearers, all unwhiskered eunuchs, stood in front of the chairs, their hands tucked into their sleeves, looks of disdain on their faces. And few would distinguish between state and federal public servants, tarring them with the same brush of disdain. The Cypriots expressed their true disdain for Ottoman rule through revolts and nationalist movements. One should revere whatever food one gets and eat it without disdain, states Manusmriti, but never overeat, as eating too much harms health. Attitudes towards southern accents, particularly the Cantonese accent, range from disdain to admiration. In both Veraguas and the capital this act was met with disdain, although on differing levels. Of course he's also full of vitriol, disdain and aloof passion for the screwy girl next door. Many Scottish church leaders, and their congregations, responded to the Five Articles with boycotts and disdain. At first, Burton refused to play Coriolanus as he didn't like the character's initial disdain for the poor and the downtrodden. Despite the disdain of the Imperial family, it seems that from very early on the general public respected Claudius. I have a healthy disdain for companies that mistreat their workers. The cat viewed the cheap supermarket catfood with disdain and stalked away. True economic conservatives, of course, disdain Cash for Clunkers as a big-government subsidy for an industry that has suffered from its own mismanagement. Show More Sentences For two centuries after George II's death, history tended to view him with disdain, concentrating on his mistresses, short temper and boorishness. I'm haunted by visions of lurching towards pretty young things, their faces creased in a cocktail of shock and disdain, during the smoochy numbers at discos. The annunciatory model on offer here is treated with disdain. Instead of maintaining warts-and-all support for this colossal national mission, however, these summer soldiers expressed surprise and disdain that there are any warts at all. The more one was indignant at being the object of such a man's contempt, the more heartily did one disdain his disdain, and recalcitrate his kicks. The magazine and the portfolio both showed their disdain for literal meanings given to objects and focused rather on the undertones, the poetic undercurrents present. It is important to note here that the ability to tailor one's response to indifference, disdain, covert and overt disaffirmation is, in and of itself, a function of privilege. Over the next five years many of those who are viewing the poor with disdain will themselves be pauperised by austerity and this will be a hard lesson to learn. Well, we're sorry to say but your disdain for social media overshare might just be the thing that is stopping you from reaping the benefits on the scales. Examples from Classical Literature According to Petherick, they do not disdain dead animals, whose carcasses they disembowel with their powerful hooked beak. The Frenchman looked at his host in some disdain, bit his lip, and was silent. He seemed to consider all vehicles not horse-drawn with something of disdain. But even this anger had no secure tenure in a nature so rich in solvents for disdain. As she and I were great friends, she confided to me her observations and her sorrowful disdain. Pliny did not disdain to counsel putting southernwood under the pillow to make one dream of a lover. Nor did the divi themselves disdain to be initiated in the infernal or celestial science. As for the treasure, by right it belongs to Eloise, who should not disdain to use it. In his irony there is a disdain which plays about even the ironist himself. Neither do they disdain to consult them, nor neglect the responses which they return. But there ought to be a mean between a ferocious disdain of all modern writing and a surfeiting on all that is published. I was very young at this time, but I already had a certain disdain for tittle-tattle. Marius, for all his affected disdain of it, viewed it with a certain respect. No, and if you were Cypris in person I should disdain you no less, in spite of every charm. Then Bazouge, as he stumbled about, made a gesture of philosophical disdain. I saw Edouard suddenly reach for the milk glass in front of his plate, and hand it back to Abonus with the disdain of a duchess. The minikin man gave Timothy a glance of ineffable disdain, and left the room. It is a necessary and warrantable pride to disdain to walk servilely behind any individual, however elevated his rank. Togo was forward, amid crude surroundings, riling the brakemen with his disgusted disdain. I take the wildering whirl, enjoyment's keenest pain, Enamored hate, exhilarant disdain. Show More Sentences But this policeman is full of philosophic superiority, disdain, and indulgence. If he spoke with pomposity she answered with disdain, and if he was dictatorial she was arrogant. The sab'ines, who were at that time considered as the most warlike people of Italy, rejected the proposal with disdain. They disdain to drink for their principles, and there is no disaffection at their tables. The Flower of Yarrow herself did not disdain to stimulate, in this way, the foraying spirit of old Harden. This disdain, this forgetfulness, has been carefully fostered by Germany and Russia. Brynhild was the haughtiest of women, and often she treated Gudrun with disdain. She looked over his head with the barest shade of disdain in her expression. Since you did not disdain my gifts, I send you some conserves of roses, jessamine, and bergamot. Razumov, with the full sense of their unbounded power over all the lives in Russia, with cursory disdain, like two Olympians glancing at a worm. Philip Morton heard, and his lip curled with a sad and a just disdain. After the example of Callot and Bosse, he did not disdain satire. Caterina asked with ineffable disdain, when remonstrance had been made. His disdain for the commonality of life still dictated his prejudices. At this Narcisse smiled with indulgent and courteous disdain. It's quite clear we must treat the impudent creature's attempt with disdain, and redouble our courtesy towards Evgenie. I disdain to spoil my eyes or waste my time by newspaper-reading. Yet, the disdain of the girl seemed only to increase momently. Again he laughed in that high-pitched, screechy key of ineffable disdain. Shall the lordly savage not only disdain the virtues and enjoyments of civilization himself, but shall he control the civilization of a world? Show More Sentences The face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips seemed to be twisted with disdain. Theron looked at his interrogator with a frown of disdain for his foppery. Mary raised her head, haughtily, with a gesture of high disdain. Muza gazed at them in deep disdain, with folded arms and heaving breast. They did not disdain the homeliest means, if it served the purpose. Cresting seas filled me a foot or so with water, but I laughed at it sloshing about my feet, and chanted my disdain for the wind and the water. Milady had listened to all this menacing tirade with a smile of disdain on her lips, but rage in her heart. This dabbling with the powers of the dark, much to the disappointment and disdain of the Spook, sets the course of the book. Nor did the greatest poets disdain to write words for the masque. She wanted to pay him with usury for his cool, hard disdain. Because, there being in the one disdain and in the other suspicion, it is not possible for them to work well together. I disdain them, relying on my knowledge that I am in the right. In fact, though my sister was a math instructor, and a good one, she had a reflexive disdain for intellectualism. The pugnacity and self-assurance of French far-right leader Marine Le Pen in defending her racist outburst against Muslims is a cause for disgust, disdain and disbelief. Note the disdain with which she ushers the biddies out of her shop. We had looked to him for a noble raillery, a lofty and loyal disdain, and he had fobbed us off with friendly personalities not even in impeccable taste. While many coaches disdain the flashiness of the behind-the-back shots or passes, they must understand that it is an effective weapon for the modern creaseman. The last clattering foot had echoed through the hall, Seesaw's backward glance of penitence had been met and answered defiantly by one of cold disdain. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of disdain? Words that rhyme with disdain What is the past tense of disdain? What is the plural of disdain? What is the adverb for disdain? What is the adjective for disdain? What is the noun for disdain? Translations for disdain Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Discworld discutient discuss with discussive discussions discussion disdained disdainful disdainfully disdainfulness disdaining disdains 7-letter Words Starting With d di dis disd disda disdai