disdain

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

Our expectation of fairness and our disdain for cheaters, expressed in laws across human cultures, can be traced to social primates—evidence that our sense of justice has deep evolutionary foundations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Russian composers like Tchaikovsky mostly treated the brouhaha surrounding Wagner’s music dramas with disdain.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

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

He’s done everything the old-fashioned way: He disdains analytics and uses them “as little as possible.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 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

Though rigid about his schedule, he disdained not only cleanliness and exercise but regular medical care.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

And though life off the mountain didn’t always go smoothly, he disdained regret.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

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

Does he remember this long-ago gesture, how he consoled me when Hamlet disdained my gift?

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Elon Musk, best known for disdaining fossil fuels and selling close to 10 million electric vehicles, is actively advocating natural-gas turbines for data centers and chip factories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

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

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2023

Stutzman, who was widely quoted during the 2016 campaign disdaining the GOP front-runner, recalls spotting Bera that year at a French restaurant in downtown Sacramento.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2023

Many musical purists looked down on the genre, disdaining renditions of Bach on the synthesizer and performances by Luciano Pavarotti in which the Italian tenor sweatily belted out Neapolitan standards.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2020

We see straight-arrow Rex Harri- son disdaining Alexandria in the 1963 film Cleopatra, until he is beguiled by Elizabeth Taylor.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro