All 3 Uses of
disdain
in
Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Yes, their parts were all cut off, they were dishonored, their very names were nothing more than dust blown disdainfully across the field of time?†
Chpt 2.2 *disdainfully = with a lack of respect; or with a sense of superiority
- To this perpetual accusation Elizabeth had never replied; she merely regarded her aunt with a wide-eyed, insolent stare, meant at once to register her disdain and to thwart any pretext for punishment.†
Chpt 2.3disdain = a lack of respect
- She sat there, and she hoped that one day God, with tortures inconceivable, would grind them utterly into humility, and make them know that black boys and black girls, whom they treated with such condescension, such disdain, and such good humor, had hearts like human beings, too, more human hearts than theirs.†
Chpt 2.3
Definition:
to disrespect or reject as unworthy