All 6 Uses of
disdain
in
Moby Dick
- But like Czar Peter content to toil in the shipyards of foreign cities, Queequeg disdained no seeming ignominy, if thereby he might happily gain the power of enlightening his untutored countrymen.†
Chpt 10-12
- "Kill-e," cried Queequeg, twisting his tattooed face into an unearthly expression of disdain, "ah! him bevy small-e fish-e; Queequeg no kill-e so small-e fish-e; Queequeg kill-e big whale!"†
Chpt 13-15
- Disdain the task?†
Chpt 34-36
- In times of strong emotion mankind disdain all base considerations; but such times are evanescent.†
Chpt 46-48
- And though all hands commonly disdained the capture of those inferior creatures; and though the Pequod was not commissioned to cruise for them at all, and though she had passed numbers of them near the Crozetts without lowering a boat; yet now that a Sperm Whale had been brought alongside and beheaded, to the surprise of all, the announcement was made that a Right Whale should be captured that day, if opportunity offered.†
Chpt 73-75
- let them never eye a Nantucketer with disdain
Chpt 82-84 *disdain = a lack of respect
Definition:
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(disdain) to disrespect or reject as unworthy