deign
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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
She doesn't deign to dance at those clubs - she says those spots are more about being seen.
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2023
She didn’t stop or deign to look at me until we were by our bunks, and she had one fist curled in her bedsheets, ready to pull herself up to the top bed.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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