Synonym: despise, reject, scorn, spurn. Antonym: admire, praise, respect. Similar words: dainty, maintain, daily, jurisdiction, disc, disk, dish, dismal. Meaning: [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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61 She used to disdain the habit and the implication of underclothes.
62 Chutra, naturally, boasted all afternoon and treated my Kutchi friends with barely concealed disdain.
63 The most obvious: His expressed concern for the environment and his disdain for technology.
64 The contrast between the enthusiasm for the Wehrmacht and the disdain for the Party was striking.
65 She curled her lips in disdain.
66 There was disdain in his smile.
67 Allende showed his disdain for the Congressional action.
68 to treat sb with disdain.
69 We disdain a man for his snobbishness.
70 I disdain to answer such an attack.
71 We disdain a dishonest act.
72 The Mongol emperors were brushed off with disdain.
73 She was treated with disdain.
74 I disdain to chronicle such victories.
75 She shared her daughter's disdain for her fellow countrymen.
76 A good man should disdain flatterers.
77 The language joss-stick heaves eyebrow, a disdain, the milli- ignores.
78 But broadcast and print art critic Waldemar Januszczak could scarcely hide his disdain. "What should be big, firm and erect is a bit of a flop, " he said.
79 You didn't have to share Tom Wolfe's "tiny mummies" disdain for the New Yorker's heritage to feel that the times demanded madder humor and stronger stimulants.
80 I disdain the pervasive secularization and degeneration of humanity in my own life style.
81 Like an insecure teenager, we shout obscenities, mistaking disdain for interest.
82 It is wrong to disdain a man merely becuse he is poor.
83 Behind closed doors he showed disdain for just about everybody.
84 I have great disdain for the recent "PROS" of MPD or DID.
85 The face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips seemed to be twisted with disdain. Sentencedict.com
86 How evil he looked? The face was saturnine and swarthy , and the sensual lips seemed to be twisted with disdain .
87 In the long period of his preparation, he must betray often an ignorance and shiftlessness in popular arts, incurring the disdain of the able who shoulder him aside.
88 Mr. Baldwin's performance in the House of Commons was viewed among us all with disdain.
89 But if the Chinese disdain the cheeses enjoyed by Europeans, they themselves adore some stinky foods that would appal many foreigners.
90 The boatman nodded towards the north of the bay with some disdain.