How To Use Deign In A Sentence
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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
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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!
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I'm honoured that he deigns to share himself with me!
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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.’
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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
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Anthony didn't deign a reply because the teacher had now started to speak.
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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
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Now that she's jumped to one of the most famous vocalists, she doesn't deign to visit her former friends.
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They both took quadruple bogey nines and suffered the exquisite torture that golf inflicts on all those who deign to play the game.
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Foreheads, -- Oh, deign outspeak fierce wrath from bosom outbreathing,
The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus
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Very well said, even though you didn't deign to adorn your text with the occasional cussword.
Early Voting And Absentee Balloting Favors Obama -- In Multiple Bush States
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It deigns to pay 0.5 per cent on deposits of less than ￡500 in its Liquid Gold account.
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But if a prince shall deign to be familiar, and to converse with those upon whom he might trample, shall his condescension therefore unking him, and his familiarity rob him of his royalty?
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.
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The only time they interact is when Cal deigns to answer Stewart's many questions about his evening adventures.
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She had listened from a respectful distance, and with the humble deference born of years of bondage, to the honeyed words with which the great lady deigned to cajole a girl-slave: but when Dea Flavia had finished speaking and the chorus of admiration had died down around her, the freedwoman, with steps which she vainly tried to render firm, approached to the foot of the catasta and stood between the great lady and her own child.
"Unto Caesar"
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But the intolerable thudding forced her back onto the vanity stool, where there she reassumed her daily shape: poor sad, achingly human Beverly Saunders, to whom no Dr. Alfred Curie would ever deign to speak.
The Color of Silence is Radium Green
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'O Edgar!' exclaimed Camilla, stopping the reading, and putting her hand, as in benediction, upon the paper, 'do you deign to talk of disappointment? do you condescend to intimate you are unhappy?
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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After years of freezing out cofounder Eduardo Saverin over a dispute about money, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has deigned to recognize his former Harvard buddy.
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I would not deign to comment on such behaviour.
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Which is the main reason why director Oliver Stone, who has made a good living out of documenting crucial moments in America's recent past with such movies as Born on the Fourthof July, JFK and World Trade Center, deigned to do his first sequel.
20 years later, greed's still good for Douglas in 'Wall Street' sequel
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While yet they deigned that healthsome balm to lade,
American Prisoners of the Revolution
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O powerful god, he cried, thou who holdest empire over the waves, deign to hearken to an unfortunate man!
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If she deigns to reply to my letter, I'll be extremely surprised.
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He even deigns to sit still for some group shots, even though it really looks like he's just contemplating escape.
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I may even boast right reverend authority on the same score; for more than one nonjuring bishop, whose authority and income were upon as apostolical a scale as the greatest abominator of Episcopacy could well desire, have deigned, while partaking of the humble cheer of the
Old Mortality
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In fact, the administration (who collectively have their head so far up their fundament that they can tell if they're getting cavities or not) doesn't even deign to tell us the results, normally.
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Poets were pop stars, now they're weird beardies in bondage to an ancient craft that nobody deigns to understand.
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King and the Sage answered, “Things beyond compt; and the least of secrets is that if, directly after thou hast cut off my head, thou open three leaves and read three lines of the page to thy left hand, my head shall speak and answer every question thou deignest ask of it.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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There is only ground cover and whatever else she deigns to preserve.
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Since the presider had deigned not to reveal specifics to him at this point, Picard figured she must be trying to preserve something of a surprise for him when and if he found time to visit the site.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony
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Governments have tried to "reflate" their flagging economies by throwing budget-crippling sums at the banks, but the banks have not deigned to pass those funds on to businesses and consumers as loans.
Ellen Brown: Deficit Terrorists Strike in the United Kingdom: United States of America Next?
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I shall await his answer when he deigns to speak to me.
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Windsor Castle, or the New Houses of Parliament, be assured that loyalty and John Bullism reign there; and, although you meet with no servility, you will not be disgusted with vulgar assumption, such as cocking up dirty legs in dirty boots on a dirty stove, wearing the hat, and not deigning to answer a civil question.
Canada and the Canadians Volume I
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Astonished and indignant at so sudden and violent an assault, Camilla stood suspended, whether to deign any vindication, or to walk silently away: yet its implications involuntarily filled her with a thousand other, and less offending emotions than those of anger, and a general confusion crimsoned her cheeks.
Camilla
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In the autumn, they came and gathered mushrooms from the few tree stumps she'd deigned to leave in her garden, mushrooms with caps of white, yellow, brown and even blue.
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But, til then, here he will stay, and neither quit the spot whence he sends you these lines, till you have deigned to pronounce verbally his doom, though he should famish for want of food!
Camilla
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He can, however, tap dance, and does so here, something Noel Coward wouldn't even have deigned to consider.
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Until he deigns to bless us with his musical insights, we must make do with the old.
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To condescend to grant or bestow ( a privilege, for example ); deign.
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Even if the urbane middle-class Delhiite deigns to get down from his E-class or rigged-meter auto-rickshaw, there is no place to walk across vast stretches of the capital city of India.
Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'
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The detective was constantly surprised at the men that some women deigned to have relationships with.
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This text speaks explicitly of those whom the Lord (has) deigned to regenerate of water and the Holy Spirit, granting to them remission of their sins.
Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 7 - The Vigil of Pentecost and the Holy Week Readings
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The master, as felonous and proud, deigned not to do it at her request.
The Golden Legend, vol. 3
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What if the authors of other nations, when they deigned to include Americans in their fiction, only wrote of Americans as narcissistic serial killers?
2009 October «
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So saying, she retired with this hopeful youth, and was followed by her gouvernante: but neither the one nor the other deigned to take the least notice of the company.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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It was when sitting gravely round the fire later on that the Stag deigned to enlighten his followers as to his reasons for giving what seemed to them so great a price for a pale-faced child.
On the Pampas
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For three days, two unevenly matched teams have brawled, they have hurled almost everything at each other, and any time one has deigned to take the advantage, the other has clawed it back.
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But Christian princes were not satisfied with the mere suspension of human justice during these days, which are so emphatically days of mercy: they would, moreover, pay homage, by an external act, to the fatherly goodness of God, who has deigned to pardon a guilty world, through the merits of the death of His Son.
Gueranger: The History of Passiontide and Holy Week
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He would often be dressed in just a loose-fitting pair of shorts, but sometimes deigned to wear a vest as well.
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I had a girlfriend some years ago who had a bad experience with a creep who tried to assault her in a unisex bathroom and a constablery which wouldn't even deign to accept a statement from her since she wasn't a fluent French speaker and an American tourist.
Paris.
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Even Napoleon's father-in-law, the Emperor of Austria, who had given his daughter in marriage to the arbiter of Europe, did not deign to reply, though only a brief time before he had received many tokens of magnanimity from the French Emperor.
The Tragedy of St. Helena
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Dr Mann didn't deign to interrupt his eating, but Jake shot me a second piercing squint.
THE DICE MAN
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At last she deigned excuse me and said, "There is no harm for thee; and, as I have netted thee, so will I unmesh thee.
Arabian nights. English
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After years of freezing out cofounder Eduardo Saverin over a dispute about money, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has deigned to recognize his former Harvard buddy.
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While hardly what one would call a convivial conversationalist, he at least deigned to engage in some interspecies small talk.
Sliding Scales
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Would Heaven I wot shall Time e’er deign us twain rejoin!
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Then, perhaps, the finicky felines will deign to dip their tongues into the clean water you offer them.
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The mistress of Socrates deigned to Cast her smile on this unknown poet.
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He did not deign to reply.
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UPDATE: (July 10) Canadian officials have finally deigned to take Hagi's fingerprints.
Archive 2009-07-01
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Would you deign to be my instructress, I should prove an apter scholar than if taught by Signor Rappaccini himself.
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Alien eggplants, they deign epicycloid arcs aimlessly spaced on a fragmented landscape of trap stone and tar, terra cotta chimney caps and aluminum antennae.
Silver Spring to Phoenix
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If some one deigns to comment, well and good, although I generally find that most commenters want to argue with me, rather than debate the subject.
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To which General Valencia replied: – That a correspondent reward should follow an heroic action, nothing more natural; but to remunerate a service which does not go beyond the sphere of ordinary things, such as mine in the affair of the 15th to the 26th of July of 1840, by such a noble distinction as the sword of honour with which your Excellency has deigned to gird me, in the name of the National Congress, of this the magnanimity of the sovereignty is alone capable; and so it is that I remain annihilated by a present worthy of the ages of the Roman Senate and Republic.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
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You wait until some junior salesperson deigns to notice your apparent desire to be shown a car.
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Did you think I was just going to stay in that poky apartment and wait until you deigned to return?
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Kafka never touches ground, he never deigns to offer you the clue to the maze.
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There is a third, rather stupid, tax distributional question, concerned with the impact of any such tax, but since I think the proposal out of court in principal, I will not deign to even consider this.
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Having wasted two paragraphs and several minutes of our time on nothing but attitude, the Gray Lady finally deigns to let us know what the story is actually about.
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Why oh why is the nation not more appreciative when he deigns to confer his unique insights onto our lesser minds?
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I may even boast right reverend authority on the same score; for more than one nonjuring bishop, whose authority and income were upon as apostolical a scale as the greatest abominator of Episcopacy could well desire, have deigned, while partaking of the humble cheer of the
Old Mortality
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It certainly sounds like good news that the administration has finally deigned to let FISA courts play their legally mandated oversight role, putting an end to the extralegal enterprise euphemistically (and question-beggingly) dubbed the Terrorist Surveillance Program.
Slightly-Less-Illegal Wiretaps
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Will they, after the President deigns to consult them, rubber stamp a resolution granting him enormous powers of life and death?
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I may even boast right reverend authority on the same score; for more than one nonjuring bishop, whose authority and income were upon as apostolical a scale as the greatest abominator of Episcopacy could well desire, have deigned, while partaking of the humble cheer of the
Old Mortality
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He knew that it was in his aunt's nature to make a brag of that sort; but worse than the brag was the fact that this was the first occasion on which Christine had deigned to show her consciousness that such a marriage would be a source of pride to his relatives -- the only two he had in the world.
A Changed Man; and other tales
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She would not deign to speak to us.
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It happened on the very same roads I drive each fall with my students, looking for burrowing owls, a bird even the most cynical college freshman deigns to call ‘cute.’
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He is the ultimate rage freak, glorying in the heat of his negative reviews while rarely deigning to actually consider the positive.
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Only those the splendidly self-confident British upper classes would deign to deliberately and with self-ease not italicise a French loanword; in doing so, I was in fact expressing my position as not being of such social elevation.
Matthew Yglesias » Rich Bankers: We Want Trillions of Dollars
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She didn't deign a reply until she was about three feet away.
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When she actually deigns to meet her constituents it's usually at an afternoon surgery advertised that same day in the local freesheet, which doesn't usually reach her constituents until evening.
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In all the articles maligning students of the past two decades for apathy, the media rarely deign to mention this counterexample.
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I am not, however, convinced that he is the cool cat who not once deigned to say a mere ‘good morning’.
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Dr Mann didn't deign to interrupt his eating, but Jake shot me a second piercing squint.
THE DICE MAN
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But it wasn't until my mother baked Apple Pye that the king deigned to visit.
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He filled the cup by the insupportable manner in which he spoke upon that affair, never daring to admit he had directed it, or deigning to disculpate himself.
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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This was his Majesty’s observation, she said, on one remarkable morning when he deigned to take his disjune —”
Old Mortality
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Even so, in the time before the plague, such was her exalted position, she would not have deigned to know that I existed.
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If you get there on the stroke of nine, they deign to take your paperwork off you and tell you to come back in four hours ' time.
KICK BACK
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O caliph, vicegerent of the Prophet! deign to listen to your faithful beeldar, while he narrates a strange adventure which hath befallen him within these few days.
The Pacha of Many Tales
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I may even boast right reverend authority on the same score; for more than one nonjuring bishop, whose authority and income were upon as apostolical a scale as the greatest abominator of Episcopacy could well desire, have deigned, while partaking of the humble cheer of the Wallace Inn, to furnish me with information corrective of the facts which I learned from others.
Old Mortality, Complete
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The reductiveness seems all on the side of those who do not deign to stoop to particulars.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He seldom deigned to notice me; and, when he did, it was with a certain supercilious insolence of tone and manner, that convinced me he was no gentleman, though it was intended to have a contrary effect.
Agnes Grey
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If she deigns to reply to my letter, I'll be extremely surprised.
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The catchword of the new era is market opening - lowering of barriers to trade, abolition of restraints on the movement of capital, the privatization of enterprises the government previously deigned to run.
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Now that she's jumped to one of the most famous vocalists, she doesn't deign to visit her former friends.
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The owners of the building had not even deigned to run a rude carpet along its length.
The Keg of Knob Creek : Bev Vincent
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‘I will not deign to answer that stupid question,’ he said.
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Blogging Tory "the lotusland soapbox" deigns to lecture us on political gender equality:
Archive 2008-10-01
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We alone are the masters of civil prudence, and our superiority is the more conspicuous, if we deign to cast our eyes on the rude and almost ridiculous jurisprudence of Draco, of Solon, and of
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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This wasn't a star deigning to give her time, but someone happy to have a chinwag.
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Usually I am flying astrally over these landscapes, hoping that the great old ones will not deign to notice me ...
H. P. Lovecraft "At the Mountains of Madness" and other masterpieces of terror
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If you get there on the stroke of nine, they deign to take your paperwork off you and tell you to come back in four hours ' time.
KICK BACK
