All 4 Uses
disdain
in
Passing, by Nella Larsen
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- Clare, who was at that time a scant fifteen years old, had just stood there with her lips pressed together, her thin arms folded across her narrow chest, staring down at the familiar pasty-white face of her parent with a sort of disdain in her slanting black eyes.†
p. 10.7disdain = a lack of respect
- And so disdainful was her voice and manner that Clare's face flushed and her eyes glinted.†
p. 29.2disdainful = full of disrespect
- That had angered Irene, and increased her disdain and contempt for the other.†
p. 63.4disdain = a lack of respect
- While doing so, she saw again the vision of Clare Kendry staring disdainfully down at the face of her father, and thought that it would be like that that she would look at her husband if he lay dead before her.†
p. 68.4 *disdainfully = 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)