disdain

A hotbed of feminist rebellion, its corset-shattering, myth-busting history encompasses a journey of emancipation, imagination, and healthy disdain for patriarchal expectations.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

Max Cady either validates the paranoia of upstanding men obsessed with protecting or dominating women, or the disdain felt by those whom such men look down upon.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

"There's a sort of disdain for things AI."

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

Still, Alcock reacts with exactly the right note of disdain: “Cool,” she croaks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

The intimidating figure stared down at me with disdain, as if I were less than a piece of lint on his coat.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

The title character disdains the common folk, and the play’s complicated political discussion and harsh, jagged poetry aren’t what most picnicking playgoers are after.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

With no action expected on rates on Wednesday, the attention will be on him: Will he submit a forecast for rate projections he disdains?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

Finkel’s account, based largely on interviews with Breitwieser, is of a romantic hero who disdains practical details as much as security ones, and who is “crushed” when Stengel deigns to buy Ikea furniture.

From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2023

Sandra Angelloz is another producer who disdains Reblochon's "garnish" status.

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2022

Do you see how awful it is to be in love with someone who disdains you?

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

Air conditioning, long disdained in France, is "no longer taboo at all", Jehanno said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Planning is for weaklings, rational analysis is disdained, the amygdala and the gut replace the cerebral cortex.

From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026

A spokesman pointed me to an interview in which AWS CEO Matt Garman disdained the idea of replacing entry-level staff with AI bots, calling it “one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025

He disdained the job—which instead went to Oscar Hammerstein II—of writing what would turn out to be the longest-running Broadway musical up to that time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

But mainstream figures in science and the military disdained RW as ineffective, impractical, and immoral.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

How does a young woman go from disdaining weapons to designing them?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

“I’m not incredibly interested in what he has to say about anything,” Rogen says, disdaining how little Gauthier considered the effects of his actions, especially on Anderson.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2022

Though “Vs.” is more of a reverse Kafka, with the witnesses disdaining the court’s authority.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2021

“Should We Stay or Should We Go” can appear heartless as the author rearranges her plot pieces into new formations with almost insolent ease, disdaining anything as cheap as an appeal for readers’ emotional engagement.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2021

Beyond its battered frame the black-barked trees grew straight to the heavens, disdaining the forest floor, where tangled heather and brush hid the path leading from this lonely spot.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein