disdained
Example Sentences
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Rogoff and Reinhart disdained that finding as an “academic kerfuffle,” arguing that the errors had minimal effect on their own conclusions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Air conditioning, long disdained in France, is "no longer taboo at all", Jehanno said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Planning is for weaklings, rational analysis is disdained, the amygdala and the gut replace the cerebral cortex.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026
Thomas Jefferson disdained the “artificial aristocracy” that marked governments before our own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
Does he remember this long-ago gesture, how he consoled me when Hamlet disdained my gift?
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
