deign

While I would never deign to speak for all critics — I’ve been around enough to know I don’t need that smoke — we’re not generally fans of inscrutability.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

And that brings down prices for every airline passenger—whether you deign to fly Spirit or not.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2024

No, they’re hardworking people, others maintained, who’ve come for jobs no American would deign to do.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024

Brown and black bears focus on the oily brains and nutritious roe of salmon when the fish are abundant and deign to chow down on whole fish only in years when salmon aren’t plentiful.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 11, 2023

Though I kept a wary eye on the thieves, he did not deign to glance back even once.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

His Ray always seems to be hiding behind a motorcycle visor even when he’s not and when he deigns to speak, the words trail off in a huff of exhaustion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026

More than that, he also secured a prized meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a head of government who rarely deigns to trouble himself with mere foreign ministers.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2024

If the press deigns to show them to us, we’ll see evermore flagrant displays of cognitive decline, and more often.

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2024

But the plant, and its dinner-plate-size flower, couldn’t care less about the glamorous guests and their desire for spectacle; it follows no timetable and deigns to open only at the time of its choosing.

From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2021

Though Quin Veturius is seventy-seven years old, women blush when he looks them in the eye, and men wince when he deigns to shake their hands.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

That applied to observers who deigned to take photographs of the case's famous players in the courthouse and lawyers who pushed their questions into territory the judge had previously made clear were off-limits.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

Times were unimportant, however, as the racers who deigned to take to the Stelvio course finetuned their lines down the course in the kind of flat light that is also forecast for Saturday's medal race.

From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have deigned to give us proof of their budding relationship: The couple was seen strolling, hand-in-hand, a couple of times in NYC over the weekend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2023

Korean dramas have been around for decades, but only in the past few years have big-name streamers deigned to acquire them.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2023

She stood at the desk a long time before the librarian deigned to attend to her.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

The love of ambiguity can feel somewhat coy—Ms. Tokarczuk gestures toward the existence of occult mysteries without deigning to fully portray them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

An interlude satirizing the stultifying fatuousness of the royal mission is followed by one that fawningly celebrates the magnificence of Diana deigning to speak to Welsh well-wishers.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2021

Before deigning to unveil his characters’ undeveloped souls, Bergman shows us the variety of masks they have been taught to adopt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2021

Those abundant trees – and of all the creatures, deigning somehow to glance at me and the dogs with a corner-of-the-eye curiosity, though, like the cuckoo, they never quite show their eyes, their faces.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2020

She was the queen of the Hollows, and here she was deigning to waste a few of her precious words on me, a kid from Valedale?

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin