Both Uses of
disdain
in
My Antonia
- When I met him on his rounds now, I thought he carried his head more disdainfully than ever,
Book 3 *disdainfully = with a sense of superiority
- As he glanced at me, his face dimpled with a seizure of irrelevant merriment, and he shot up the windmill tower with a lightness that struck me as disdainful.†
Book 5
Definition:
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(disdain) to disrespect or reject as unworthy