| A maid aft seen and a gown aft worn, are disesteemed and held in scorn. |
| Thus, non-landed economic activities geared toward profit and growth through capital investment were disesteemed and thereby stifled. |
| A jester at the court of his master, indulged and disesteemed, winning a clement master's praise. |
| Mary was undoubtedly of high lineage, even of royal blood, but her social situation did not place her with the rich and prominent but with the disesteemed. |
| In our earnestness to romanticize the cowboy we've ironically disesteemed his true character. |
| It is quite clear that fathers have been disesteemed and are disesteemed today. |
