Sample Sentences fordeign (auto-selected)
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Against the fence, in a line, were six chipped-enamel slop jars holding brilliant red geraniums, cared for as tenderly as if they belonged to Miss Maudie Atkinson, had Miss Maudie deigned to permit a geranium on her premises. (source)deigned = done something that one considers to be below one's dignity
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They threw seeds from their hand as if they deigned to fling a scornful gift, and the earth was a beggar under their feet. (source)deigned = did something they considered to be beneath their dignity
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Maybe, just maybe, it would deign to answer me. (source)deign = do something considered beneath one's dignity
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Heimdall looked offended, as if that was someone he would never deign to take a selfie with.† (source)
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Ser Waymar Royce did not deign to reply.† (source)
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She does not deign to ask me what it is for.† (source)
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And when that superior American makes his smug remark, Bogart doesn't even deign to look at him when he replies.† (source)
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CAPTAIN BENEDIKT NEVER DEIGNED to speak to me—he would stare out past my head if I neared him.† (source)
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"Your Majesty," said Konn Torin, still without deigning to meet Cinder's eye.† (source)
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He finally comes to a stop, deigns to put his feet on the ground.† (source)
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Thou lookest meekly at me and deignest not even to be wroth with me.† (source)standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou deignest" in older English, today we say "You deign."
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Since I am deprived of company and entertainment, this act of kindness is the least someone of your importance could deign to bestow upon a lowly, miserable wretch such as I. Yours most truly, Celaena Sardothien† (source)
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He turned to Wang, to whom he had never deigned to speak before.† (source)
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And I can't see you deigning to settle before you've really lived.† (source)
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Though Quin Veturius is seventy-seven years old, women blush when he looks them in the eye, and men wince when he deigns to shake their hands.† (source)
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God grant that we may be guided aright, and that He will deign to watch over my husband and those dear to us both, and who are in such deadly peril.† (source)
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