All 3 Uses of
disdain
in
Mountains Beyond Mountains
- His disdain for buoys and channel markers still endured.†
Chpt 2.5
- The Marxists Farmer had read, and many of the intellectuals he knew, disdained religion, and it was true that some versions of Christianity, and more than a few missionaries, invited impoverished Haitians into what Père Lafontant called "the cult of resignation," into accepting their lot patiently, anticipating the afterlife.†
Chpt 2.8
- The fact that any sort of religious faith was so disdained at Harvard and so important to the poor—not just in Haiti but elsewhere, too—made me even more convinced that faith must be something good.
Chpt 2.9 *disdained = disrespected
Definition:
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(disdain) to disrespect or reject as unworthy