All 9 Uses of
disdain
in
Of Human Bondage
- There was something romantic in getting these various rewards actually in his grasp, and then leaving them to others because he disdained them.†
Chpt 21-22
- It was rather a come-down from the dramatic surrender of all these prizes which were in his reach, because he disdained to take them, to the plain, ordinary winning of them.†
Chpt 21-22
- They were sitting on a stile now by the high-road, and Miss Wilkinson looked with disdain upon the stately elms in front of them.†
Chpt 31-32
- Philip had disdained humanity in the mass; he adopted the attitude of one who wraps himself in solitariness and watches with disgust the antics of the vulgar;
Chpt 41-42 *disdained = rejected as not good enough
- The genial disdain of Michel Rollin, who called them impostors, was answered by him with vituperation, of which crapule and canaille were the least violent items; he amused himself with abuse of their private lives, and with sardonic humour, with blasphemous and obscene detail, attacked the legitimacy of their births and the purity of their conjugal relations: he used an Oriental imagery and an Oriental emphasis to accentuate his ribald scorn.†
Chpt 43-44
- There was something fine in keeping to himself these treasures of beauty all his life and giving them to the world disdainfully when, he and the world parting company, he had no further use for them.†
Chpt 83-84
- Whenever there was any question of money, Leonard Upjohn assumed a slightly disdainful expression.†
Chpt 83-84
- Philip had cultivated a certain disdain for idealism.†
Chpt 87-88
- Philip was startled at Doctor South's suspicion of asepsis; he had accepted it in deference to universal opinion; but he used the precautions which Philip had known insisted upon so scrupulously at the hospital with the disdainful tolerance of a man playing at soldiers with children.†
Chpt 115-116
Definition:
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(disdain) to disrespect or reject as unworthy