[ US /ˈdeɪn/ ]
[ UK /dˈe‍ɪn/ ]
VERB
  1. do something that one considers to be below one's dignity

How To Use deign In A Sentence

  • This day wilt thou either bring back in triumph the gory head and spoils of Aeneas, and we will avenge Lausus 'agonies; or if no force opens a way, thou wilt die with me: for I deem not, bravest, thou wilt deign to bear an alien rule and a Teucrian lord.' The Aeneid of Virgil
  • You get home and the last thing on your mind is concocting a lavish meal for two or three or however many of your children deign to put in an appearance for this meal!
  • I'm honoured that he deigns to share himself with me!
  • Seating is known to ‘belong’ to particular families, with, at the least, sharp looks and some words to anyone else who deigns to sit in one of the ‘best seats.’
  • Then she said stiffly, `Well, since my friend didn't deign to tell me last night, I had to find out through the grapevine. AN OLDER WOMAN
  • Anthony didn't deign a reply because the teacher had now started to speak.
  • Then she said stiffly, `Well, since my friend didn't deign to tell me last night, I had to find out through the grapevine. AN OLDER WOMAN
  • Now that she's jumped to one of the most famous vocalists, she doesn't deign to visit her former friends.
  • They both took quadruple bogey nines and suffered the exquisite torture that golf inflicts on all those who deign to play the game.
  • Foreheads, -- Oh, deign outspeak fierce wrath from bosom outbreathing, The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus
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