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Definition
a lack of respect — often suggesting distaste and an undeserved sense of superiority
or:
to reject as not good enough
or:
to reject as not good enough
- ...asked Estella of myself, with the greatest disdain.Chapter 8 (55% in)
disdain = lack of respect
- "Tried to murder him?" said my convict, disdainfully.Chapter 5 (62% in)
- "He calls the knaves Jacks, this boy!" said Estella with disdain, before our first game was out.Chapter 8 (60% in)
- I repeated, with disdainful emphasis.Chapter 19 (19% in)
- Saying which he went out in disdain; and the landlord, having no one to reply upon, found it impracticable to pursue the subject.Chapter 54 (56% in)
There are no more uses of "disdain" in Great Expectations.
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