disdained

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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

A spokesman pointed me to an interview in which AWS CEO Matt Garman disdained the idea of replacing entry-level staff with AI bots, calling it “one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 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

It normally took years for a political prisoner to raise his status from D to C. We disdained the classification system.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela