disdain

Example Sentences

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Disdain for the new requirements is not universal; Matrix, a nonprofit organization working to build an open-source standard for encrypted communication, published a blog post Friday explaining some possible technical paths forward.

From The Verge • Mar. 29, 2022

The significant evolution of the Disdain Dance is that, like #MeToo, individual admissions of suffering are flowering into a collective experience of solidarity.

From The Guardian • Oct. 24, 2019

Disdain is barely hidden beneath the sweetness, like the smirk you might wear when you tell someone, “Bless your heart.”

From Slate • Apr. 23, 2019

“Maybe a boycott will work because the people who support this kind of legislation and have the power to change it are generally ruled by the bottom line. Disdain, however, probably accomplishes far less.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2015

Disdain, rivalry, suspense, short-lived joy, long sorrow, all the symptoms and concomitants of the passion of love—which are only commonplaces as death and life are commonplace—form their motives.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George