disesteem
Example Sentences
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In 2021, popular Christian author Beth Moore publicly abandoned the SBC over "attitudes among some key Christian leaders that smacked of misogyny, objectification and astonishing disesteem of women."
From Salon
"We have this built-in disesteem for women and it's got to change."
From Fox News
This attitude of disesteem toward women has given rise to a culture that among other things has discouraged abuse victims from coming forward.
From New York Times
That was the spirit of the Holyoke Center, a building that is held in disesteem by the entire universe.
From The New Yorker
“The rage of the disesteemed is personally fruitless,” he writes, “but it is also absolutely inevitable.”
From The New Yorker
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