All 5 Uses of
disdain
in
Madame Bovary
- Emma's enthusiasm, which his bourgeois good sense disdained, seemed to him in his heart of hearts charming, since it was lavished on him.†
Chpt 2.10
- A doctor of medicine, fifty years of age, enjoying a good position and self-possessed, Charles's colleague did not refrain from laughing disdainfully when he had uncovered the leg, mortified to the knee.†
Chpt 2.11
- So, striving to divert her thoughts, Emma determined now to see in this reproduction of her sorrows only a plastic fantasy, well enough to please the eye, and she even smiled internally with disdainful pity when at the back of the stage under the velvet hangings a man appeared in a black cloak.†
Chpt 2.15
- "Oh," she replied bitterly, "they are poor charms since you disdained them."
Chpt 3.8 *disdained = rejected as not good enough
- Disdainful of honours, of titles, and of academies, like one of the old Knight-Hospitallers, generous, fatherly to the poor, and practising virtue without believing in it, he would almost have passed for a saint if the keenness of his intellect had not caused him to be feared as a demon.†
Chpt 3.8
Definition:
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(disdain) to disrespect or reject as unworthy