Both Uses
disdain
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 13 chapter version
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- She crouched on the floor like a wounded thing, and Dorian Gray, with his beautiful eyes, looked down at her, and his chiselled lips curled in exquisite disdain.
Chpt 5 *disdain = lack of respect (as though she was unworthy of him)
- The face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips seemed to be twisted with disdain.†
Chpt 9disdain = a lack of respect
Definitions:
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(1)
(disdain) to disrespect or reject as unworthy
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)