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
- He lived without disdain.†
Chpt 1.1
- 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
- …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;…†
Chpt 2.1
- As a workman, it allows itself to be disdained; as a soldier, it allows itself to be flogged.†
Chpt 2.1
- 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
- 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 *disdain = a lack of respect
- The Thenardier cast a glance of disdain on him.†
Chpt 2.3
- While her husband disdains her, she has the satisfaction of ruining her husband.†
Chpt 3.2
- …had returned, and of ghosts, the "former" subjects of amazement at everything, brave and noble gentlemen who smiled 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
- 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
- Enjolras, the believer, disdained this sceptic; and, a sober man himself, scorned this drunkard.†
Chpt 3.4
- Therefore I disdain the human race.†
Chpt 3.4
- What branch does one disdain when one feels that one is falling?†
Chpt 3.8
- She was, on the contrary, somewhat incensed at this handsome and disdainful individual.†
Chpt 4.3
- 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
- "You mean larton brutal [black bread]!" retorted Gavroche, calmly and coldly disdainful.†
Chpt 4.6
- 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
- This idea of Napoleon, disdained by men, had been taken back by God.†
Chpt 4.6
- 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
- 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
- "Enjolras disdains me," he muttered.†
Chpt 4.12
- Enjolras regarded him with disdainful eyes:— "Grantaire, you are incapable of believing, of thinking, of willing, of living, and of dying."†
Chpt 4.12
- 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
- At every discharge by platoons, Gavroche puffed out his cheek with his tongue, a sign of supreme disdain.†
Chpt 5.1
Definition:
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(disdain) to disrespect or reject as unworthy