disdain

"There's a sort of disdain for things AI."

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

Still, Alcock reacts with exactly the right note of disdain: “Cool,” she croaks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

Once such disdain for a settlement becomes possible, the SEC’s ability to set a clear standard for future conduct is greatly compromised, and continuing bickering becomes likely after any settlement.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026

Guff of this sort has its entertainment value, as do passages that barely conceal the memoirist’s disdain for Ms. Harris.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

Recognizing the public's disdain for the spoils system, he called for a law regulating civil service jobs within the government.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

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

The former Fox News personality, who served as an Army National Guard infantry officer in Iraq and Afghanistan, disdains rules of engagement and other guardrails as constraining to the “warrior ethos.”

From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2026

Saturday seemed one of those days that disdains guile, cunning or disguise.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

In a December 1904 message to Congress, Roosevelt disdained any “unmanly” inclination to a “peace of tyrannous terror, the peace of craven weakness, the peace of injustice.”

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025

He disdained the job—which instead went to Oscar Hammerstein II—of writing what would turn out to be the longest-running Broadway musical up to that time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

One can only wonder at the malevolent pleasure he would have felt at his Cubist masterworks ending up at the Met and not at the Tate or MoMA, which he had disdained for decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

Does he remember this long-ago gesture, how he consoled me when Hamlet disdained my gift?

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

How does a young woman go from disdaining weapons to designing them?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

Nxe3 Bf6!, again disdaining the rook on h4 to keep the attack humming.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 19, 2023

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

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2023

He has few friends in politics, having flaunted his purity through the muddy streets of government for decades, disdaining all who compromise.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2020

He growled and muttered and then lay down on his side, his eyes closed, as if disdaining his tormentors.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks