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Sentence count:109+9Posted:2016-10-17Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: despiserejectscornspurnAntonym: admirepraiserespectSimilar words: daintymaintaindailyjurisdictiondiscdiskdishdismalMeaning: [dɪs'deɪn]  n. 1. lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike 2. a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient. v. 1. look down on with disdain 2. reject with contempt. 
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31 Y., congressman made no effort to hide his disdain for almost every type of federal tax.
32 Predictably, the international media circus, with its Olympian disdain for the parochial, has long since moved on.
33 So why should he, the late seventeenth-century undertaker, be treated with such disdain?
34 The disdain spilled over and spread to the other commuters scurrying to their cars.
35 The years following this unsteady inaugural were marked by a deepening mutual disdain.
36 They remained aloof from the front row out of disdain and from the back row out of a sense of responsibility.
37 Pentecostals have endured more than their share of dismissive scholarship, condescending analysis, and popular disdain.
38 With some disdain, almost all expressed the need to manage office politics.
39 Another reason behind the opposition to political patronage is the national disdain for politics and politicians.
40 Hari knocked on the door and it was quickly opened by a young maidservant who looked her over in disdain.
41 Even the trendiest of today's celebrity chefs does not disdain to slosh it around.
42 The choice that is left is to go through the motions either with counterfeit conviction, or with subversion and disdain.
43 Natasha gazed at her with an expression in which caution and disdain were perfectly balanced.
44 He was regarding Dexter and the gold-fish bowl with disdain.
45 If his earlier experimental albums were met with disdain by his core audience, this one appalled them.
46 Rangers have shown a delightful disdain for reputation this season.
47 All three express an interest in opera and a disdain for top forty pop.
48 The story goes that, after Wapping, Kinnock treated the Murdoch papers with such disdain that he deserved all he got.
49 His father noticed them too but regarded them with disdain.
50 Even the casual Aranyos did not disdain to make the sign.
51 The priest staggered to his feet and waddled off with an air of drunken disdain.
52 We saw earlier how such explanations of inflation were greeted with pontifical disdain by monetarists.
53 The Shah had sometimes shown disdain for many such people.
54 Used to winning football, I first viewed the Cowboys with disdain.
55 The tufted ducks gathered into a loose raft in mid-water and eyed the intruders with disdain.
56 Short- hold and assured tenancies aimed at enticing owners to let empty homes are looked on with suspicion and disdain.
57 Children of welfare-dependent single-parent families have neither a monopoly on juvenile crime nor a disdain for conventional values.
58 In Leicester, though, they treat those twin impostors, panic and the ticking clock(http://Sentencedict.com), with disdain.
59 Bach himself did not disdain to transcribe Vivaldi concertos for organ or harpsichord and to borrow fugue-subjects from Legrenzi and Corelli.
60 Now the carbon-dioxide snow gleamed white beneath the icy disdain of the stars.
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