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She tries to be polite, but she cannot hide her disdain for authority.disdain = lack of respect
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They disdained manual labor.disdained = rejected as unworthy of them
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She has nothing but disdain for the notion that common people can regulate their own lives better than she can.disdain = lack of respect
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Rosa's greatest disdain, however, was reserved for 8 Grande Strasse. A large house... (source)disdain = disrespect and dislike
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The reason for the simplicity isn't disdain for uniqueness, as the other factions have sometimes interpreted it. Everything—our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles—is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed, and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. (source)disdain = a dislike or lack of respect
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She glanced over at me with the usual look of disdain and started to load her clothes into the washer. (source)disdain = lack of respect
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his disdain for worldly pleasures (source)disdain = rejection (treating as unworthy of interest)
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Dad was disdainful of a fire starter like kerosene. (source)disdainful = feeling it was below him to engage in the use (condescending or contemptuous)
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He eyed me disdainfully then went on. (source)disdainfully = with a lack of respect; or with a sense of superiority
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In the nineteenth century, wealthy American women disdained the women's suffrage movement, (source)disdained = showed a lack of respect for
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An hour after the lights went out, disdaining Mammachi's frightened pleading, little Ammu crept back into the house through a ventilator to rescue her new gumboots that she loved more than anything else. (source)disdaining = rejecting as not good enough (showing a lack of respect for Mammachi's pleading)
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He takes off his hat to Mrs. Pearce, who disdains the salutation and goes out. (source)disdains = ignores (as though not worthy of her notice)
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As when a panther from the thicket's depth Comes forth to meet the hunter, undismay'd, Nor turn'd to flight by baying of the hounds; Nor, wounded or by jav'lin or by sword, Or by the spear transfix'd, remits her rage, But fights, until she reach her foe, or die; Agenor so, Antenor's godlike son, Disdain'd to fly, ere prove Achilles' might.† (source)
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I have heard that she made no secret of her disdain for his appearance. (source)disdain = a lack of respect
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With a disdainful gesture, he tossed what he'd held into the snow. The keys to the truck. (source)disdainful = showing a lack of respect
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“That way,” she said. I nearly hooted with delight. “Quite wrong. You're off by forty degrees or more.” “Forty degrees,” she muttered disdainfully. “I'll just walk downhill. That'll take me back to the coast.” “There's a lot of coast on an island.” (source)disdainfully = with an undeserved sense of superiority
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