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disdain
noun as in hate; indifference
verb as in scorn
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In a culture that worships celebrities while pretending to disdain them, the Sony emails are catnip for the masses.
It was associated with government heavy-handedness and viewed with disdain.
In the immediate aftermath of the oil spill, apoplectic Southerners cast their disdain towards the North.
Many critics have disdain precisely for this strange messiness of his, this showmanship that dares to create a new order.
His look of disdain at my question lingers as he pronounces laconically: “We kill them.”
He did not disdain to manufacture dainty little dishes for his young mistresses.
The instant lift of Florimond's eyebrows was full of insolent, supercilious disdain.
The tall, slender Spaniard, swarthy and of classic feature, looks about him with suppressed disdain.
He looked at Mandleco with immense disdain, gave a pert tilt of his head and surveyed the room with a grimace of distaste.
The boy's pulses leaped toward these things even while his lips curled in disdain at the shallow decoy.
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On this page you'll find 157 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to disdain, such as: antipathy, arrogance, aversion, contempt, derision, and dislike.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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