disdain

The disdain in her eyes wards off anyone from seeing weakness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

It argued that while men and women have equal worth, they aren’t identical, and that Americans treat traditional sex roles with unreasonable disdain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

I am not going to calculate how many working Mondays I’ve had in my life, but even before I was working, I had a Garfield-esque disdain for the day.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 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

But with disdain and dismissal, not with fear.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

The title character disdains the common folk, and the play’s complicated political discussion and harsh, jagged poetry aren’t what most picnicking playgoers are after.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

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

Mr. Phippen delights in the process and disdains transactions with customers, which he finds stressful and distracting, leaving that part to Mr. Blocker.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 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

Rogoff and Reinhart disdained that finding as an “academic kerfuffle,” arguing that the errors had minimal effect on their own conclusions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Forster’s marriage also brought him suffering—he was disdained by his wife and cuckolded by his friends—indeed, his marital situation may have given Goethe the basis for his 1809 novel “Elective Affinities.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

But the nearer Manzo was to the center of traditional politics, the more he disdained them.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

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

“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

The British imposed additional penalties on the Americans, declaring them traitors, disdaining their petitions, subjecting their merchant ships to confiscation and hiring German mercenaries.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2021

Though “Vs.” is more of a reverse Kafka, with the witnesses disdaining the court’s authority.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2021

An hour after the lights went out, disdaining Mammachi’s frightened pleading, little Ammu crept back into the house through a ventilator to rescue her new gumboots that she loved more than anything else.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy