disdain

College taught me to investigate the “great” composers who mattered and disdain those of no value.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Another point in Europe’s favor is that international investors view the region much like Bessent does, with indifference if not disdain.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

Caesar affected to disdain high office but in 27 B.C. maneuvered the Senate into bestowing upon him, as Agrippa relates, “the dignified honorific of Augustus—‘the Revered One’—close to, but not quite, divine.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

Lately her manner toward me has changed from one of pious disdain to an awed humility.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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

John-Calum McLeod, or Cal, returns to Scotland’s Isle of Harris after attending art school in Glasgow and finds it difficult to coexist with his father, also named John, who disdains everything about him.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

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

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2022

A gray eminence of the avant-garde theater world, Iván disdains the bourgeois sensibilities of Félix’s fans and the kind of work he does to entertain them.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 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

But the nearer Manzo was to the center of traditional politics, the more he disdained them.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

Still, amid the delights of Mr. Koolhaas’s stair, there are reminders that he is part of the generation of Deconstructivist architects who disdained the profession’s traditional values of unity, harmony and stability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

In Sondheim’s body of work, Okrent searches for the autobiographical resonances that Sondheim himself mostly disdained.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

The yacht had been sold to MoMo B. ChaCha through various channels because it was a symbol of wicked American excess, which The Peacock publicly disdained.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

Elon Musk, best known for disdaining fossil fuels and selling close to 10 million electric vehicles, is actively advocating natural-gas turbines for data centers and chip factories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Others, disdaining the election, said they had skipped voting altogether.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2023

Stutzman, who was widely quoted during the 2016 campaign disdaining the GOP front-runner, recalls spotting Bera that year at a French restaurant in downtown Sacramento.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2023

But China remains hunkered down in its own nuclear bunker, disdaining U.S. invitations to discuss strategic stability.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2023

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