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

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

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

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

She can never be slighted or disesteemed, while her good temper and benevolence render her a blessing to her companions.

From Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Lady by Chapone, Hester

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