deign

Example Sentences

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She is completely in a pantheon that I could only deign to touch.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2025

No, they’re hardworking people, others maintained, who’ve come for jobs no American would deign to do.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2024

Brown and black bears focus on the oily brains and nutritious roe of salmon when the fish are abundant and deign to chow down on whole fish only in years when salmon aren’t plentiful.

From Scientific American • Apr. 11, 2023

And when she does deign to talk policy, she phones it in.

From Slate • Feb. 28, 2023

Then he might well have to face Yale, Harvard, or Princeton—schools that did not even deign to row at Poughkeepsie—at the Olympic trials.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown