Both Uses of
disdain
in
The Waves
- Louis, glancing, tripping with the high step of a disdainful crane, picks up words as if in sugar-tongs.†
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- Let us go back together, over the bridge, under the elm trees, to my room, where, with walls round us and red serge curtains drawn, we can shut out these distracting voices, scents and savours of lime trees, and other lives; these pert shop-girls, disdainfully tripping, these shuffling, heavy-laden old women; these furtive glimpses of some vague and vanishing figureāit might be Jinny, it might be Susan, or was that Rhoda disappearing down the avenue?†
Definition:
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(disdain) to disrespect or reject as unworthy