All 4 Uses of
disdain
in
The Secret Garden
- Her hair was like curly silk and she had a delicate little nose which seemed to be disdaining things, and she had large laughing eyes.†
p. 3.3disdaining = rejecting as not good enough; or showing a lack of respect
- "It is different in India," said Mistress Mary disdainfully.†
p. 23.9 *disdainfully = with a lack of respect; or with a sense of superiority
- But after a few days spent almost entirely out of doors she wakened one morning knowing what it was to be hungry, and when she sat down to her breakfast she did not glance disdainfully at her porridge and push it away, but took up her spoon and began to eat it and went on eating it until her bowl was empty.†
p. 39.1
- You can trifle with your breakfast and seem to disdain your dinner if you are full to the brim with roasted eggs and potatoes and richly frothed new milk and oatcakes and buns and heather honey and clotted cream.†
p. 226.9disdain = a lack of respect
Definition:
to disrespect or reject as unworthy