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

Planning is for weaklings, rational analysis is disdained, the amygdala and the gut replace the cerebral cortex.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026

Thomas Jefferson disdained the “artificial aristocracy” that marked governments before our own.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2025

Years later he told me how religious faith was so disdained at Harvard and so important to the poor—not just in Haiti but elsewhere—that he’d become convinced that faith must be something good.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French