disdain

Example Sentences

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Disdain for the new requirements is not universal; Matrix, a nonprofit organization working to build an open-source standard for encrypted communication, published a blog post Friday explaining some possible technical paths forward.

From The Verge • Mar. 29, 2022

The significant evolution of the Disdain Dance is that, like #MeToo, individual admissions of suffering are flowering into a collective experience of solidarity.

From The Guardian • Oct. 24, 2019

Disdain is barely hidden beneath the sweetness, like the smirk you might wear when you tell someone, “Bless your heart.”

From Slate • Apr. 23, 2019

Disdain for country music is as old as the genre itself, and appropriately, mainstream critics have disliked Bryan from the beginning and have tended to treat him with some combination of amusement and animosity.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2017

Love bound me; now, by kind Disdain set free, I can despise that Love as well as she.

From Thomas Stanley: His Original Lyrics, Complete, In Their Collated Readings of 1647, 1651, 1657. With an Introduction, Textual Notes, A List of Editions, An Appendis of Translation, and a Portrait. by Stanley, Thomas