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Definition
a lack of respect — often suggesting distaste and an undeserved sense of superiority
or:
to reject as not good enough
or:
to reject as not good enough
- "Here are your sights, here are your sounds, and here," he said, handing Milo the last of them disdainfully, "are your words."p. 201.8
- "This," said the bee with complete disdain, "is the Humbug.p. 53.9
There are no more uses of "disdain" in The Phantom Tollbooth.
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