All 3 Uses
disdain
in
Uprising, by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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- But Yetta couldn't back down now, not with Miss Milhouse staring so disdainfully.†
p. 164.6 *disdainfully = with a lack of respect; or with a sense of superiority
- She pounded the knocker of the front door, and it wasn't until the butler came to the door and fixed her with a disdainful stare that she realized how disheveled she must look, how many rules of polite society she was breaking.†
p. 198.9disdainful = full of disrespect
- "Yes?" the woman behind the counter asked, raising her eyebrows disdainfully.†
p. 265.5disdainfully = with a lack of respect; or with a sense of superiority
Definitions:
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(1)
(disdain) to disrespect or reject as unworthy
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)