disesteemed

Example Sentences

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“The rage of the disesteemed is personally fruitless,” he writes, “but it is also absolutely inevitable.”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 19, 2014

You never can tell, He may be even here on the prairie, the Christ-child whom the unwise old Baboushka disesteemed hundreds and hundreds of years ago.

From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey

A jester at the court of his master, indulged and disesteemed, winning a clement master's praise.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

Your loving friend, H. S. L. Do those things that you judge to be good, although, after you have done them, you may be disesteemed, being regardless of the praise or blame of the vulgar.—Pythagoras.

From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various

A maid aft seen and a gown aft worn, are disesteemed and held in scorn.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander