Both Uses of
disdain
in
Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth
- In a world that works through ambition and self-help, while inculcating an ethic that looks upon their results with disdain, how can an earnest man, a public figure living in a time of crisis, gratify his aspirations and yet remain morally whole?†
Subsection 1disdain = a lack of respect
- Lincoln's connection with such a tribe could only spur his loyalty to the democratic ways in which he had been brought up; he never did "belong," and Mary Todd's attitude toward him as a social creature was always disdainful.†
Subsection 3 *disdainful = full of disrespect
Definition:
to disrespect or reject as unworthy