Both Uses of
disdain
in
Hard Times
- The orator having refreshed himself, wiped his corrugated forehead from left to right several times with his handkerchief folded into a pad, and concentrated all his revived forces, in a sneer of great disdain and bitterness.†
Chpt 2.4
- surveyed him fixedly from head to foot, swept disdainfully past him,
Chpt 3.9 *disdainfully = a lack of respect
Definition:
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(disdain) to disrespect or reject as unworthy