The Only Use of
disdain
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Had a roar of laughter burst from the multitude—each man, each woman, each little shrill-voiced child, contributing their individual parts—Hester Prynne might have repaid them all with a bitter and disdainful smile.
p. 42.3disdainful = full of disrespect
Definition:
to disrespect or reject as unworthy