disesteemed

Example Sentences

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“The rage of the disesteemed is personally fruitless,” he writes, “but it is also absolutely inevitable.”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 19, 2014

The Loring-Corliss case is now a matter of record in the dusty files of the "Usher Sentinel" and its decidedly disesteemed contemporary, the "Mesa News."

From Sundown Slim by Fischer, Anton Otto

A maid aft seen and a gown aft worn, are disesteemed and held in scorn.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander

She can never be slighted or disesteemed, while her good temper and benevolence render her a blessing to her companions.

From Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Lady by Chapone, Hester

Your loving friend, H. S. L. Do those things that you judge to be good, although, after you have done them, you may be disesteemed, being regardless of the praise or blame of the vulgar.—Pythagoras.

From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various