disdained
Example Sentences
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Air conditioning, long disdained in France, is "no longer taboo at all", Jehanno said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Forster’s marriage also brought him suffering—he was disdained by his wife and cuckolded by his friends—indeed, his marital situation may have given Goethe the basis for his 1809 novel “Elective Affinities.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
But the nearer Manzo was to the center of traditional politics, the more he disdained them.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
Planning is for weaklings, rational analysis is disdained, the amygdala and the gut replace the cerebral cortex.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026
Years later he told me how religious faith was so disdained at Harvard and so important to the poor—not just in Haiti but elsewhere—that he’d become convinced that faith must be something good.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
