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do something that one considers to be below one's dignity

She wouldn't deign to meet with me.

deign = do something considered beneath one's dignity

Will your majesty deign to excuse me?
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
She won't deign to join us.
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.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

deigned = done something that one considers to be below one's dignity

Maybe, just maybe, it would deign to answer me.
James Patterson -- The Angel Experiment

deign = do something considered beneath one's dignity

"I shall deign to speak your language," Boreas said, "as Piper McLean has honored me in mine."
Rick Riordan -- The Lost Hero

deign = do something considered beneath one's dignity

They threw seeds from their hand as if they deigned to fling a scornful gift, and the earth was a beggar under their feet.
Ayn Rand -- Anthem

deigned = did something they considered to be beneath their dignity

She did not deign to inform me of her plans.
J.D. Robb -- Glory in Death
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.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula
Come hither, deign to touch an abject wretch; Draw near and fear not; I myself must bear The load of guilt that none but I can share.
Sophocles -- Oedipus the King
"Your Majesty," said Konn Torin, still without deigning to meet Cinder's eye.
Marissa Meyer -- Cinder
The Emperor had deigned to notice him.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
Then, when she finally does deign to speak to me, it's only to criticize me some more.
Meg Cabot -- The Princess Diaries
Will your Excellency deign to look.
Baroness Orczy -- The Scarlet Pimpernel
The most plausible of these, who has appeared in print, has even deigned to admit that the election of the President is pretty well guarded.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
"She has not told me that—and Lavinia didn't deign.
Henry James -- Washington Square
I deigned to make him no reply; and, taking up my hat, was going out to bed, when he came between me and the door.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
She does not deign to ask me what it is for.
Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
He eyed Bumble askance, as he entered, but scarcely deigned to nod his head in acknowledgment of his salutation.
Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist
His steward might deign to occupy it, but never, certainly, the great landed proprietor himself.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables

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