All 3 Uses
disdain
in
The God of Small Things
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- It said: To look down upon; to view with contempt; to scorn or disdain.†
Chpt 2disdain = a lack of respect
- An hour after the lights went out, disdaining Mammachi's frightened pleading, little Ammu crept back into the house through a ventilator to rescue her new gumboots that she loved more than anything else.
Chpt 8 *disdaining = rejecting as not good enough (showing a lack of respect for Mammachi's pleading)
- For a few days he remained in this suicidal state of disdainful undress.†
Chpt 21disdainful = full of disrespect
Definitions:
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(1)
(disdain) to disrespect or reject as unworthy
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)