All 15 Uses of
disdain
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- He felt that he ought to have disdained that despicable wretch, Fyodor Pavlovitch, too much to have been upset by him in Father Zossima's cell, and so to have forgotten himself.†
Chpt 2
- I saw her eyes taking my measure one evening at the battery commander's, but I didn't go up to her, as though I disdained her acquaintance.†
Chpt 3
- "You did not disdain me, sweet, excellent young lady," drawled Grushenka in her sing-song voice, still with the same charming smile of delight.†
Chpt 3
- Disdain you!†
Chpt 3
- Love God's people, let not strangers draw away the flock, for if you slumber in your slothfulness and disdainful pride, or worse still, in covetousness, they will come from all sides and draw away your flock.†
Chpt 4
- She looked disdainfully at Alyosha as he came in.
Chpt 4 *disdainfully = with a lack of respect
- Some idiot comes in, and you put us to shame!" cried the girl by the window, suddenly turning to her father with a disdainful and contemptuous air.†
Chpt 4
- He would not turn to Nikolay Parfenovitch, as though he disdained to speak to him.†
Chpt 9
- "Well then you can go to the devil," said Kolya, cutting short the conversation; and turning sharply to the right he strode quickly on his way as though he disdained further conversation with a dolt who did not even know Sabaneyev.†
Chpt 10
- He had heard a great deal about him from the boys, but hitherto he had always maintained an appearance of disdainful indifference when he was mentioned, and he had even "criticized" what he heard about Alyosha.†
Chpt 10
- But the boys stared at him, stared at him for a whole minute, and then all the staring eyes turned at once and were fastened upon Kolya, who was still scanning the audacious boy with disdainful composure.†
Chpt 10
- Katya, don't look disdainful.†
Chpt 11
- Ivan interrupted, carelessly and disdainfully.†
Chpt 11
- At one point he seemed about to jump up and cry out, but controlled himself and only shrugged his shoulders disdainfully.†
Chpt 12
- And I heard his story and his tears with sneering disdain.†
Chpt Epil.
Definition:
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(disdain) to disrespect or reject as unworthy