Thus, non-landed economic activities geared toward profit and growth through capital investment were disesteemed and thereby stifled. |
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It is quite clear that fathers have been disesteemed and are disesteemed today. |
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In our earnestness to romanticize the cowboy we've ironically disesteemed his true character. |
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It is pitted against practicality, since theory is held to be opposed to practice, and the 'purely' theoretical mind is so much disesteemed. |
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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. |
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