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How to use disdained in a sentence

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By 1980, major record companies disdained the music, preferring the slicker stylings of the new wave.
Perigryne felt his gaze upon her once again, but she disdained to move from her position.
Snape was sitting at the desk, but he disdained to even so much as lay a finger on the keypad.
And while Hong Kong people once disdained Chinese visitors as poor country cousins, the touring mainlanders hardly fit the bumpkin stereotype.
In our modern history, there may have been no time when the law has been so disdained and violated as it is today.
He disdained the illusion of spontaneity and other tricks to wow groundlings.
He extolled the virtues of Aranda belief, and disdained the modern world that had replaced traditional sanctities.
Of course, Ballard has always disdained or been uninterested in ingratiating himself with any kind of literary social scene.
However, the change in tone of the Oscar ceremony disproportionately affects what the women will wear if ballroom gowns are disdained.
They disdained make-up and shampoo but drove nice cars and lived in expensively decorated tree-houses.
They disdained Kerry's internationalism as effeminate, unpatriotic, a character flaw, and elitist.
Aside from mushrooms, fungi are widely disdained by the agriculture industry.
Of the three countries to put the constitution to the popular vote, two have now disdained it.
Dismissed by the press, disdained by opponents, Cassius Clay kept on winning.
Retail executives have historically disdained the information technology department as a cost center.
A long time ago, an editor left this paper and wrote a farewell column in which he disdained our readers and letter-writers.
There was a time when the powerful disdained this institution's ability to be a unifying player.
An inveterate adventurer more interested in fun and international intrigue than money, Vallone disdained an airline career and signed on as a ferry pilot.
Populism is very powerful where the populace is disdained by the elites.
Political parties are much disdained these days, often deservedly.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The Church disdained his aid and condemned his errors, and he became a heresiarch.
But the king disdained these gentle flowers of speech which the muni offered him.
For then leaving virtue, it falls into disdained baseness, which is the undoubtable badge of one that will betray society.
Who looked with contempt on girls and disdained their maidenly advances!
Elizabeth disdained the appearance of noticing this civil reflection, but its meaning did not escape, nor was it likely to conciliate her.
The beldame looked at him scornfully, and disdained to reply.
How Ude and Carme would have disdained this kind of cookery!
He bought a secondhand watch at a pawnbroker's, but disdained a chain.
A message brought Dan, who first disdained to take duckbill seriously.
Wasps we knew well and disdained, storming them in their fastnesses.
Before the eyes of his chief priest he disdained to lower himself to such commonness of humanity.
Our Inner Circle forbade her, but she had ever a will of her own and disdained discipline.
It was almost imperceptible motions of his eyes, fingers placed upon the lips, little assassinating smiles, which really did assassinate the disdained beauty.
I love you better now, when I can really be useful to you, than I did in your state of proud independence, when you disdained every part but that of the giver and protector.
Unlike most leaders, who, when camp was made and the dogs were unhitched, huddled near to the gods for protection, White Fang disdained such protection.
Originally disdained as a hoax by scholars and theologians, The Unknown Life of Jesus has since acquired some credibility as corroborating information surfaced.
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