disdained

Example Sentences

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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

As a crypto category, memecoins are disdained even by many participants in the field.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025

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.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2024

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

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein