All 3 Uses of
disdain
in
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
- Norah smoldered, disdained and envied Bree, bit her tongue; Bree took classes on Virginia Woolf, moved in with the manager of a health-food restaurant in Louisville, and stopped coming by.†
p. 41.9disdained = rejected as not good enough; or showed a lack of respect
- For years she had consoled herself with her disdainful opinion of Norah Henry, a bit imperial, used to ease and order, a woman who might have left Phoebe in an institution.†
p. 243.7 *disdainful = full of disrespect
- Lately, since his father died, he had been playing more at informal venues as well as concert halls: he'd pick up a guitar and play in bars or restaurants, classical pieces but also more popular works that he had always, in the past, disdained.†
p. 378.1disdained = rejected as not good enough; or showed a lack of respect
Definition:
to disrespect or reject as unworthy