disdain

Another point in Europe’s favor is that international investors view the region much like Bessent does, with indifference if not disdain.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

Taylor has never hidden her disdain for the circus of fight-week theatre, preferring the sanctuary of the gym.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Caesar affected to disdain high office but in 27 B.C. maneuvered the Senate into bestowing upon him, as Agrippa relates, “the dignified honorific of Augustus—‘the Revered One’—close to, but not quite, divine.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Max Cady either validates the paranoia of upstanding men obsessed with protecting or dominating women, or the disdain felt by those whom such men look down upon.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

There is hunger in her gaze before her usual expression of disdain returns.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

With no action expected on rates on Wednesday, the attention will be on him: Will he submit a forecast for rate projections he disdains?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

Finkel’s account, based largely on interviews with Breitwieser, is of a romantic hero who disdains practical details as much as security ones, and who is “crushed” when Stengel deigns to buy Ikea furniture.

From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2023

Sandra Angelloz is another producer who disdains Reblochon's "garnish" status.

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2022

This contrivance surely served only to highlight the absence of Ferrante herself, thus keeping the audience’s attention fixed on the figure of the missing “writer-hero” she disdains.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2022

Do you see how awful it is to be in love with someone who disdains you?

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

Air conditioning, long disdained in France, is "no longer taboo at all", Jehanno said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

But the nearer Manzo was to the center of traditional politics, the more he disdained them.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

In Sondheim’s body of work, Okrent searches for the autobiographical resonances that Sondheim himself mostly disdained.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

Planning is for weaklings, rational analysis is disdained, the amygdala and the gut replace the cerebral cortex.

From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026

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

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Elon Musk, best known for disdaining fossil fuels and selling close to 10 million electric vehicles, is actively advocating natural-gas turbines for data centers and chip factories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Others, disdaining the election, said they had skipped voting altogether.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2023

But China remains hunkered down in its own nuclear bunker, disdaining U.S. invitations to discuss strategic stability.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2023

“I’m not incredibly interested in what he has to say about anything,” Rogen says, disdaining how little Gauthier considered the effects of his actions, especially on Anderson.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2022

An hour after the lights went out, disdaining Mammachi’s frightened pleading, little Ammu crept back into the house through a ventilator to rescue her new gumboots that she loved more than anything else.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy