disdain

Eventually, his interest in our own vernacular building types, with their fusion of copycat gentility and aggressive disdain for anything attractive, came to provide him with much of the material of his art.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

College taught me to investigate the “great” composers who mattered and disdain those of no value.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Another point in Europe’s favor is that international investors view the region much like Bessent does, with indifference if not disdain.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

When Oscars host Chevy Chase opened the 1988 ceremony with the rather soft quip, “Good evening, Hollywood phonies,” the disdain from the audience was palpable, and he was never asked to host the show again.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

He told us to stop fussing, and then with no efforts to repress his disdain he packed her into a rickshaw bound for the polyclinic.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

With no action expected on rates on Wednesday, the attention will be on him: Will he submit a forecast for rate projections he disdains?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

The former Fox News personality, who served as an Army National Guard infantry officer in Iraq and Afghanistan, disdains rules of engagement and other guardrails as constraining to the “warrior ethos.”

From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2026

She makes fun of things she disdains, uplifts that which she reveres and even points out her own shortcomings, as comics are wont to do.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2022

A gray eminence of the avant-garde theater world, Iván disdains the bourgeois sensibilities of Félix’s fans and the kind of work he does to entertain them.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2022

Do you see how awful it is to be in love with someone who disdains you?

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

Air conditioning, long disdained in France, is "no longer taboo at all", Jehanno said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

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

Netflix and its ilk once disdained ads as well as sports and other live-action programming; now they’re buying with both hands because such programming synergizes particularly well with advertising.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025

The yacht had been sold to MoMo B. ChaCha through various channels because it was a symbol of wicked American excess, which The Peacock publicly disdained.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

How does a young woman go from disdaining weapons to designing them?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

Nxe3 Bf6!, again disdaining the rook on h4 to keep the attack humming.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 19, 2023

Others, disdaining the election, said they had skipped voting altogether.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2023

“I’m not incredibly interested in what he has to say about anything,” Rogen says, disdaining how little Gauthier considered the effects of his actions, especially on Anderson.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2022

But I grew angry at the thought of the three men disdaining Cristiana.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein