disdained

Example Sentences

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And though life off the mountain didn’t always go smoothly, he disdained regret.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 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

He disdained the job—which instead went to Oscar Hammerstein II—of writing what would turn out to be the longest-running Broadway musical up to that time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

Its clunky and widely disdained Cybertruck is beginning to look like a lemon.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2025

Jule hadn’t seen Immie face to face with anyone she disdained until now.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart