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deign

verb as in lower oneself

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For more proof of our necessity, look at the disasters that befall any community that deigns to cut out its queer eye.

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Violence can be exploding in his face – actually, not figuratively – and he’ll still run only as fast as he has to, perhaps without deigning to remove his hands from his pockets.

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Even if that happens, it remains to be seen whether Trump will deign to adhere to judicially imposed limits.

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When the chief justice even deigns to address the crisis he and his colleagues have created, they look everywhere except at their own behavior.

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Which she already has, along with all the extracurriculars required to prove she will be an asset to whichever university deigns to accept our tens of thousands of dollars in tuition, housing and fees.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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