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Despite that, FDR was disdained by former Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. as having “a second-class intellect, but a first-class temperament.”

Traditional Republicans are disdained and scorned by the vast majority of self-identified Republicans.

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Viewed in isolation, tariffs are disdained by liberal and conservative economists alike.

In asserting unity, we are absolving a man who seeks power through the humiliation and subordination of disdained others.

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Auster was so much the old-fashioned author that he worked on a typewriter and disdained email and other forms of electronic communication.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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