All 28 Uses of

disdain

in

Les Miserables

It is necessary to walk one's path discreetly; the apostleship does not disdain the canonship.†
Chpt 1.1

disdain = a lack of respect

This sudden and sometimes severely accentuated gravity resembled the disdain of a goddess.†
Chpt 1.3

Drawn away by her liaison with Tholomyes to disdain the pretty trade which she knew, she had neglected to keep her market open; it was now closed to her.†
Chpt 1.4

to rule, war regulated, watch in hand, nothing voluntarily left to chance, the ancient classic courage, absolute regularity; on the other, intuition, divination, military oddity, superhuman instinct, a flaming glance, an indescribable something which gazes like an eagle, and which strikes like the lightning, a prodigious art in disdainful impetuosity, all the mysteries of a profound soul, associated with destiny; the stream, the plain, the forest, the hill, summoned, and in a manner, forced to obey, the despot going even so far as to tyrannize over the field of battle; faith in a star mingled with strategic science, elevating but perturbing it.†
Chpt 2.1

disdainful = full of disrespect

As a workman, it allows itself to be disdained; as a soldier, it allows itself to be flogged.†
Chpt 2.1

disdained = rejected as not good enough; or showed a lack of respect

The most "puzzled" were the school-master and Thenardier, the proprietor of the tavern, who was everybody's friend, and had not disdained to ally himself with Boulatruelle.†
Chpt 2.2

He did not disdain his servants, which caused his wife to dispense with them.†
Chpt 2.3

disdain = a lack of respect

These three little girls did not yet reckon up four and twenty years between them, but they already represented the whole society of man; envy on the one side, disdain on the other.
Chpt 2.3 *

While her husband disdains her, she has the satisfaction of ruining her husband.†
Chpt 3.2

disdains = rejects as not good enough; or shows a lack of respect

at being in France but wept also, delighted to behold their country once more, in despair at not finding their monarchy; the nobility of the Crusades treating the nobility of the Empire, that is to say, the nobility of the sword, with scorn; historic races who had lost the sense of history; the sons of the companions of Charlemagne disdaining the companions of Napoleon.†
Chpt 3.3

disdaining = rejecting as not good enough; or showing a lack of respect

His eyes were deep, his lids a little red, his lower lip was thick and easily became disdainful, his brow was lofty.†
Chpt 3.4

disdainful = full of disrespect

Enjolras, the believer, disdained this sceptic; and, a sober man himself, scorned this drunkard.†
Chpt 3.4

disdained = rejected as not good enough; or showed a lack of respect

She was, on the contrary, somewhat incensed at this handsome and disdainful individual.†
Chpt 4.3

disdainful = full of disrespect

Cosette, who made it her law to please her father, and to whom, moreover, all spectacles were a novelty, accepted this diversion with the light and easy good grace of youth, and did not pout too disdainfully at that flutter of enjoyment called a public fete; so that Jean Valjean was able to believe that he had succeeded, and that no trace of that hideous vision remained.†
Chpt 4.3

disdainfully = with a lack of respect; or with a sense of superiority

"You mean larton brutal [black bread]!" retorted Gavroche, calmly and coldly disdainful.†
Chpt 4.6

disdainful = full of disrespect

The bourgeois decked out in their Sunday finery who passed the elephant of the Bastille, were fond of saying as they scanned it disdainfully with their prominent eyes: "What's the good of that?†
Chpt 4.6

disdainfully = with a lack of respect; or with a sense of superiority

This idea of Napoleon, disdained by men, had been taken back by God.†
Chpt 4.6

disdained = rejected as not good enough; or showed a lack of respect

The gamin examined the rope, the flue, the wall, the windows, and made that indescribable and disdainful noise with his lips which signifies:— "Is that all!"†
Chpt 4.6

disdainful = full of disrespect

Gavroche disdainfully contented himself, by way of reprisal, with elevating the tip of his nose with his thumb and opening his hand wide.†
Chpt 4.11

disdainfully = with a lack of respect; or with a sense of superiority

"Enjolras disdains me," he muttered.†
Chpt 4.12

disdains = rejects as not good enough; or shows a lack of respect

Enjolras regarded him with disdainful eyes:— "Grantaire, you are incapable of believing, of thinking, of willing, of living, and of dying."†
Chpt 4.12

disdainful = full of disrespect

He smiled with a smile than which nothing more disdainful, more energetic, and more resolute could be seen in the world, and replied with haughty gravity:— "I see what it is.†
Chpt 4.12

The manner in which they had repulsed the attack of the preceding night had caused them to almost disdain in advance the attack at dawn.†
Chpt 5.1

disdain = a lack of respect

At every discharge by platoons, Gavroche puffed out his cheek with his tongue, a sign of supreme disdain.†
Chpt 5.1

Definition:

to disrespect or reject as unworthy