Both Uses of
disdain
in
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- So in the warm summer days the lonesome child sat on her stoop and pretended disdain for the group of children playing on the sidewalk.
Chpt 13 *disdain = a lack of respect or interest (because they are not good enough)
- She had walked straight through McGarrity's front door disdaining the deviousness of the side door marked "Ladies' Entrance.†
Chpt 38disdaining = rejecting as not good enough; or showing a lack of respect
Definition:
to disrespect or reject as unworthy