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Definition of Disdain
1. Verb. Look down on with disdain. "Sam cannot disdain Sue "; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately"
Generic synonyms: Detest, Hate
Specialized synonyms: Look Down On
Derivative terms: Despisal, Despising, Scorn, Scorn, Scorner
2. Noun. Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike. "The despite in which outsiders were held is legendary"
Generic synonyms: Dislike
Derivative terms: Contemptuous, Scorn
3. Verb. Reject with contempt. "She spurned his advances"
Generic synonyms: Decline, Refuse
Specialized synonyms: Rebuff, Repel, Snub
Related verbs: Decline, Pass Up, Refuse, Reject, Turn Down, Refuse, Reject, Turn Away, Turn Down
Derivative terms: Reject, Rejective, Scorner, Spurner, Turndown
4. Noun. A communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient.
Generic synonyms: Depreciation, Derogation, Disparagement
Derivative terms: Condescend
Definition of Disdain
1. n. A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn.
2. v. t. To think unworthy; to deem unsuitable or unbecoming; as, to disdain to do a mean act.
3. v. i. To be filled with scorn; to feel contemptuous anger; to be haughty.
Definition of Disdain
1. Noun. A feeling of contempt or scorn. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To regard (someone or something) with strong contempt. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive obsolete) To be indignant or offended. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disdain
1. to scorn [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: scorn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disdain
Literary usage of Disdain
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1872)
"When the puff of anger or disdain is uttered with exaggerated feeling it produces
an explosive sound with the lips, represented by the syllable Hurt, ..."
2. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1916)
"disdain RETURNED. He that loves a. rosy cheek, Or a. coral lip admires, Or from
star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires, As old Time makes these ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1875)
"DEAR LADY disdain. BY JUSTIN M'CARTHY, AUTHOR OF " LINLEY ROCHFORD," "A FAIR
SAXON," "MY ENEMY'S DAUGHTER," &c. CHAPTER IV. MY LADY disdain. ..."
4. The Poetical Register, and Repository of Fugitive Poetry for (1806)
"disdain. A RHAPSODY. YE, whom stern Fate has doom'd to prove The hard vicissitudes
of Love, Does Memory retain; Or has opposing Reason found ' In all the ..."
5. The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song: Selected from English and American by Charlotte Fiske Bates (1910)
"disdain RETURNED. HE that loves a rosy cheek Or a coral lip admires, Or from
starlike eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires; As old Time makes these ..."
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