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
In a December 1904 message to Congress, Roosevelt disdained any “unmanly” inclination to a “peace of tyrannous terror, the peace of craven weakness, the peace of injustice.”
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025
One can only wonder at the malevolent pleasure he would have felt at his Cubist masterworks ending up at the Met and not at the Tate or MoMA, which he had disdained for decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Part of the genius of the nonviolent Civil Rights Movement, which Johnson sometimes disdained but unquestionably drew power from, was that it made justice seem simple.
From Slate ● May 19, 2025
This Wang Lung heard, although he disdained to answer, although her words smote him like a dagger thrust because he feared that he looked indeed what he was, a farmer.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
