disdained

Example Sentences

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

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026

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

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

Tesla’s other new model, the clunky and widely disdained Cybertruck, is beginning to look like a lemon.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2025

My father disdained shopkeepers as unworthy and low, but he consorted with them and curried favor with the customers, hoping to overhear court gossip.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein