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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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Maybe, just maybe, it would deign to answer me. (source)deign = do something considered beneath 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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I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.'† (source)deign = do something considered beneath one's dignity
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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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He turned to Wang, to whom he had never deigned to speak before.† (source)deigned = did something that one considers to be below one's dignity
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Hermione did not deign to respond, but approached Harry.† (source)deign = do something considered beneath one's dignity
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We were just discussing Earth's relationship with Luna when you deigned to join us.† (source)deigned = did something that one considers to be below one's dignity
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Finny got up, patted my head genially, and moved on across the field, not deigning to glance around for my counterattack, but relying on his extrasensory ears, his ability to feel in the air someone coming on him from behind.† (source)deigning = doing something that one considers to be below one's dignity
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He finally comes to a stop, deigns to put his feet on the ground.† (source)deigns = does something that one considers to be below one's dignity
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Who fair Zeleia's wealthy valleys till,(106) Fast by the foot of Ida's sacred hill, Or drink, AEsepus, of thy sable flood, Were led by Pandarus, of royal blood; To whom his art Apollo deign'd to show, Graced with the presents of his shafts and bow.† (source)
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Thou lookest meekly at me and deignest not even to be wroth with me.† (source)deignest = do something considered beneath one's dignitystandard 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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Then, when she finally does deign to speak to me, it's only to criticize me some more.† (source)
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She was about to ask again when one of the soldiers deigned to look in her direction and, judging by the look on his face (as if someone had shoved a smelly radish under his nose), he was not impressed by Alyss' rough-and-tumble appearance.† (source)deigned = did something that one considers to be below one's dignity
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And I can't see you deigning to settle before you've really lived.† (source)deigning = doing something that one considers to be below one's dignity
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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)deigns = does something that one considers to be below one's dignity
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