Sample Sentences for
disdain
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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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    "You think now to teach me my trade?" he asked, and he did not try to hide the disdain in his voice.  (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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    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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    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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    Although he disdained pork, he enjoyed his glass of liquor.  (source)
    disdained = rejected
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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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    —taught me to shift Into a madman's rags; to assume a semblance That very dogs disdain'd; and in this habit Met I my father with his bleeding rings, Their precious stones new lost; became his guide, Led him, begg'd for him, sav'd him from despair; Never,—O fault!†  (source)
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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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    He was disdainful of anyone who had a regular crowd of parasites loafing about their stores, discussing the taste of yuca and their last lays.  (source)
    disdainful = full of disrespect
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    With what seemed a single movement she tore off her clothes and flung them disdainfully aside.  (source)
    disdainfully = with distaste
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