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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
- In growing meekness Babbitt went on waiting till Hanson casually reappeared with a quart of gin—what is euphemistically known as a quart—in his disdainful long white hands.Chapter 8 (26% in)
- The barbers snatched steaming towels from a machine like a howitzer of polished nickel and disdainfully flung them away after a second's use.Chapter 24 (44% in)
There are no more uses of "disdain" in Babbitt.
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