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

For many years, once I was sensible that she exaggerated or fabricated the tales she told me, I bore the humiliation of this mark of her disesteem.

From Literature

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