Thesaurus / disdain
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I am just anti- the banality of the discussion that these otherwise decent, fun people devolve to when indulging, and my girlfriend does not share my disdain of banality, I guess.
CAROLYN HAX: HE WORRIES THAT EVERY DAY AFTER JAN. 1 WILL BE 420CAROLYN HAXDECEMBER 10, 2020WASHINGTON POSTIt was by Gene himself, expressing said disdain for the undignified Ironman Triathlon watch, “thick as a brick and handsome as a hernia,” that the new President Clinton wore even to meetings at the United Nations.
STYLE CONVERSATIONAL WEEK 1413: OUR NEW NOT-SO-BIG TOP -- THE CLOWNING ACHIEVEMENT TROPHYPAT MYERSDECEMBER 3, 2020WASHINGTON POSTThese policies reflect the administration’s broader disdain for science and technology as a whole.
AMERICA’S TECHNOLOGICAL LEADERSHIP IS AT STAKE IN THIS ELECTIONGIDEON LICHFIELDOCTOBER 29, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWIt made the news, and multiple A-list celebrities made public statements avowing their support for Pratt and their disdain for those heartless internet bullies who have invoked the laws of Gotta Go to tell Chris Pratt he Gotta Get.
HOW CHRIS PRATT BECAME THE INTERNET’S LEAST FAVORITE CHRISCONSTANCE GRADYOCTOBER 22, 2020VOXSuch events, however destructive and aggressive as they tend to be, are commonly associated not with the hunter’s sense of malice, disdain, or even casual disinterest, but an abiding sense of respect and honor for his prey.
THE PSYCHIC TOLL OF SEVERING THE HUNTER-PREY RELATIONSHIP - FACTS SO ROMANTICWILLIAM BUCKNEROCTOBER 14, 2020NAUTILUSHe did not disdain to manufacture dainty little dishes for his young mistresses.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME II (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSThe instant lift of Florimond's eyebrows was full of insolent, supercilious disdain.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIThe tall, slender Spaniard, swarthy and of classic feature, looks about him with suppressed disdain.
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMANHe looked at Mandleco with immense disdain, gave a pert tilt of his head and surveyed the room with a grimace of distaste.
WE'RE FRIENDS, NOWHENRY HASSEThe boy's pulses leaped toward these things even while his lips curled in disdain at the shallow decoy.
THE DRAGON PAINTERMARY MCNEIL FENOLLOSAWORDS RELATED TO DISDAIN
- affronts
- brushes aside
- brushes off
- condemns
- depreciates
- despises
- detests
- discounts
- disdains
- dismisses
- disregards
- has nothing to does with
- ignores
- keeps at arm's length
- keeps one's distance
- laughs off
- let goes
- lives with
- makes light of
- not cares for
- overlooks
- passes by
- passes over
- passes up
- pays no attention to
- pays no mind
- pretermits
- rebuffs
- rejects
- scants
- scorns
- shrug off
- slights
- slurs
- spurns
- tunes out
- underestimates
- airs
- aloofness
- audacity
- bluster
- braggadocio
- brass
- cheek
- chutzpah
- conceit
- conceitedness
- contemptuousness
- crust
- disdain
- disdainfulness
- ego
- egotism
- gall
- haughtiness
- hauteur
- high-handedness
- hubris
- imperiousness
- insolence
- loftiness
- lordliness
- nerve
- ostentation
- overbearance
- pomposity
- pompousness
- presumption
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- pride
- pridefulness
- priggishness
- proudness
- scornfulness
- self-importance
- self-love
- smugness
- superciliousness
- superiority
- swagger
- vanity
- bears with
- blinks at
- condones
- disregards
- excuses
- forgives
- goes along with
- grins and bears it
- handles
- ignores
- let goes
- lets bygones is bygones
- lets passes
- lives with
- looks the other way
- pays no mind
- plays past
- puts up with
- rolls with punches
- stands for
- stomachs
- swims with the tide
- takes
- tunes out
- turns blind eye to
- whitewashes
- wink at
- wipes slate clean
- airs
- assumption
- big-headedness
- cockiness
- conceit
- condescension
- contumely
- disdain
- disdainfulness
- egoism
- egotism
- haughtiness
- hauteur
- hubris
- huff
- immodesty
- insolence
- loftiness
- narcissism
- overconfidence
- patronage
- pragmatism
- presumption
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- proud flesh
- self-exaltation
- self-love
- smugness
- snobbery
- superbity
- superciliousness
- swagger
- swelled head
- vainglory
- vanity
- airs
- aloofness
- audacity
- bluster
- braggadocio
- brass
- cheek
- chutzpah
- conceit
- conceitedness
- contemptuousness
- crust
- disdain
- disdainfulness
- ego
- egotism
- gall
- haughtiness
- hauteur
- high-handedness
- hubris
- imperiousness
- insolence
- loftiness
- lordliness
- nerve
- ostentation
- overbearance
- overbearingness
- pomposity
- pompousness
- presumption
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- pride
- priggishness
- proudness
- scornfulness
- self-importance
- self-love
- smugness
- superciliousness
- superiority
- swagger
- vanity
- airs
- aloofness
- audacity
- bluster
- braggadocio
- brass
- cheek
- chutzpah
- conceit
- conceitedness
- contemptuousness
- crust
- disdain
- disdainfulness
- ego
- egotism
- gall
- haughtiness
- hauteur
- high-handedness
- hubris
- imperiousness
- insolence
- loftiness
- lordliness
- nerve
- ostentation
- overbearance
- overbearingness
- pomposity
- pompousness
- presumption
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- pride
- pridefulness
- priggishness
- scornfulness
- self-importance
- self-love
- smugness
- superciliousness
- superiority
- swagger
- vanity
- burn
- cashier
- cast aside
- cast off
- cast out
- chuck
- decline
- deny
- despise
- disallow
- disbelieve
- discard
- discount
- discredit
- disdain
- dismiss
- eliminate
- exclude
- give thumbs down to
- jettison
- jilt
- kill
- nix
- not buy
- pass by
- pass on
- pass up
- put down
- rebuff
- refuse
- renounce
- repel
- reprobate
- repudiate
- repulse
- scoff
- scorn
- scout
- scrap
- second
- shed
- shoot down
- shun
- slough
- spurn
- throw away
- throw out
- turn down
- veto
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