disdain
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"There's a sort of disdain for things AI."
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
Only much later in life did Steinem, who wrote a biography about Monroe, realize her initial disdain wasn’t the actress’ fault.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026
Once such disdain for a settlement becomes possible, the SEC’s ability to set a clear standard for future conduct is greatly compromised, and continuing bickering becomes likely after any settlement.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026
To begin with, there’s its ingratiating style, leisurely but leavened with wit and chutzpah, as well as Fiedler’s pervasive disdain for the sentimental and ersatz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
“Just another day in good old Davey,” I reply with disdain.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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
Finkel’s account, based largely on interviews with Breitwieser, is of a romantic hero who disdains practical details as much as security ones, and who is “crushed” when Stengel deigns to buy Ikea furniture.
From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2023
Sandra Angelloz is another producer who disdains Reblochon's "garnish" status.
From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2022
Saturday seemed one of those days that disdains guile, cunning or disguise.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 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
In a December 1904 message to Congress, Roosevelt disdained any “unmanly” inclination to a “peace of tyrannous terror, the peace of craven weakness, the peace of injustice.”
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025
Thomas Jefferson disdained the “artificial aristocracy” that marked governments before our own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
He disdained the job—which instead went to Oscar Hammerstein II—of writing what would turn out to be the longest-running Broadway musical up to that time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
Its clunky and widely disdained Cybertruck is beginning to look like a lemon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025
Many Progressives—who tended to be middle-class white Protestants—held deep prejudices against immigrants and blacks and were so convinced of their own virtuous authority that they disdained democratic procedures.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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
He was a true icon, prowling the world in search of glamour and beauty, disdaining “dreckitude.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2022
“Should We Stay or Should We Go” can appear heartless as the author rearranges her plot pieces into new formations with almost insolent ease, disdaining anything as cheap as an appeal for readers’ emotional engagement.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2021
He growled and muttered and then lay down on his side, his eyes closed, as if disdaining his tormentors.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
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