How To Use Disdain In A Sentence

In my view his confrontational, gladiatorial style has been a major contributor to the widespread disdain of the British public for politicians generally. Times, Sunday Times
The Kennedy partisans are quite a tongue-tied bunch, all of them struggling gamely, if inarticulately, to somehow dismiss or disdain or circumlocute what is, apparently, the main focus of the film. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
He is highly disdainful of anything to do with the literary establishment.
Also, I know you disdain catfish, but there's certainly a subset of guys who are hard-core and pretty cultish about catching monster blues and flatheads. Which Fishing Cult is the Most Insane?

I'm don't feel the need to obstreperously express disdain for all sports.
Despite his disdain for much about the town at the time, the rector was optimistic about the future.
As Valentine's Day approaches each year he stoutly proclaims his disdain for this "faux holiday, this commercial invention by some ad man or company created for the sake of making a few bucks, selling silly, heart-shaped cards, bouquets and chocolates. Jamie Schler: Valentine's Day Flourless Chocolate Truffle Torte
The woman strode past him with a disdainful sneer and entering the temple, glanced about.
During the first twenty minutes or so, I wasn't sure I would make it through the entire movie -- it was, I thought, similar in style to a kind of movie I find unbearable: a style based on long handheld shots, a soundtrack that contains little or no music and lots of environmental sounds characters breathing, eating, walking, and a general attitude that seems to fetishize "artlessness", though offers little to replace the art it so disdains. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
In his encyclical on ecumenism, Pope Paul II speaks of the need to overcome our exclusiveness, our reluctance to forgive, our pride, our presumptuous disdain, and our unevangelical proclivity to condemn the other side.
And it was just that sort of encomium that gave fodder to writers who disdained her response to movies, many of those writers whom she in her turn disdained. David Finkle: Easy Reader: Kellow's Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark Throws Radiant Light on the Renowned Movie Critic
Some faculty members seem to express a condescending, at times almost disdainful, attitude.
I can picture him now, often speaking without a note, with humour, incisive argument and magisterial disdain for the opposing view, swatting away anyone ill-judged enough to make a hostile intervention.
My mother, who was as haughty as Lucifer with her descent from the Stuarts, and her right line from the _old Gordons, not the Seyton Gordons_, as she disdainfully termed the ducal branch, told me the story, always reminding me how superior _her_ Gordons were to the southern Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
Yet he himself was a middle-class intellectual who disdained the working class and sequestered himself for decades inside the British Library in lieu of direct observation of the conditions he railed against.
Political parties are much disdained these days, often deservedly.
He is highly disdainful of anything to do with the literary establishment.
I then give him a disdainful look as he copies Brent's routine. The Sun
Deciding that marriage was not so important for their third daughter, the Nis had loosened the bindings and allowed Kwei-tseng’s feet to grow normally into what upper-class Chinese referred to disdainfully as “big feet.” The Last Empress
In this case, I find it difficult to understand why there's so much hatred and disdain for this movie.
Many qualitative researchers are disdainful of approaches to research that entail the imposition of predetermined formats on the social world.
some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines
On the contrary, it tends to treat them all with a headmistressy disdain. Times, Sunday Times
It had already been instrumented, and Rex toed the weatherproof case of the old seismograph with disdain. MINUTES TO BURN
Those who have it, use it, with condescension and casual disdain for those on the receiving end.
The contrast between the enthusiasm for the Wehrmacht and the disdain for the Party was striking.
I never told you I disdained your observations, only that they seemed premature. Chapala real estate market crawling back
But the woman looked back at him with disdain, unamused.
Having a calm smile to face with being disdained indicates kind of confidence.
And when some of the finer diners cast a disdainful eye upon their shabby, old-fashioned dresses, the two women merely giggled and stared right back at them.
Snape was sitting at the desk, but he disdained to even so much as lay a finger on the keypad.
Barack Obama is "arrogant," "dishonest," and "radical," Fox News 'Sean Hannity announced during a single 10-second chunk of prime-time TV last week -- a casually hateful appraisal that didn't even raise eyebrows, simply because that kind of blanketed disdain for the new president has already become so commonplace. Eric Boehlert: Unhinged in 30 Days: The Right-Wing Media's Obama Era Implosion
Margarita, as beautifull as the best: but yet so peevish, scornefull, and fantasticall, that she disdained any good advice given her; neyther could any thing be done, to cause her contentment; which absurd humors were highly displeasing to her husband: but in regard he knew not how to helpe it, constrainedly he did endure it. The Decameron
His contempt for ineptitude as well as his disdain for those who held opinions contrary to his was legendary.
Scientists will have to step out of their laboratories and humanists will have to give up their haughty disdain for modernity.
He was clothed only in his shiny fur and his disdain for the human emotion of shame. The Broken God
They hewed to a narrow ideological range, disdainful of progressives on the left and Patrick Buchanan on the right.
cried Roderick, pushing aside his half-eaten porridge with a disdainful grimace. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
In the bishops they saw pomposity and rampant corruption, disdain for biblical teaching, and addiction to ceremony. Christianity Today
And although the English will no lesse disdaine, than any Nation under heaven can doe, to be beaten upon their owne ground or elsewhere by a forraigne enemie; yet to entertaine those that shall assaile us, with their owne beefe in their bellies, and before they eate of our Kentish Capons, I take to be the wisest way. Operation Sea Lion
As a native of the area around Mobile, Alabama, a place long ridiculed by many as the nation's stepchild, it amused me that what was disdained as a redneck corner of the universe populated by ignorant and racist whites and besieged blacks became the "sunbelt" in the 1970s and as soon as those "cheeseheads" arrived in "crackerland" with no more need for their snowtires and discovered giant flying cockroaches and mildew among other horrors and complained mightily about the tropics they had naively sought, they became disenchanted. Lake Level Sucks 11-19-05
The rhetoric of prejudicial disdain is meted out, on the one hand against the “hoity-toity”, and on the other against the “hoi poloi” -- against the “snob” with complex tastes and the “pleb” with simple tastes. Archive 2009-06-01
Many contributors were Trinity graduates, parading classical learning and disdain for the vulgar.
By 1980, major record companies disdained the music, preferring the slicker stylings of the new wave.
He disdained deep delta blues, calling it ‘negative’.
And I think that's why the term plantation is used much to our - much to our disdain. CNN Transcript May 12, 2001
Although people typically disdain thinking about close relationships in exchange terms, partners often do reciprocate favors and kindnesses toward each other.
All which cautions of mine, which I think he deemed to be disdains, did inflame more his lascivious appetite (for this is the name wherewithal I entitle his affection towards me), which, had it been such as it ought, you had not known it now, for then the cause of revealing it had not befallen me. The Fourth Book. I. Wherein Is Discoursed the New and Pleasant Adventure That Happened to the Curate and the Barber in Sierra Morena
One of the places in which Dawg lives is Chiapas State where the term "gringo" is considered a racial epithet so when you are looking around down there for Dawg to buy me some cerveza, please refrain from canvassing locals for the "fat gringo from Alabama often seen hanging out in the barrio plaza" or they might think you are disdaining me. S.O.S.E. Security - Chapala
This may be anathema to top-flight diplomats disdainful of consular drudgery and commercialism. Times, Sunday Times
Then, the hostler was told to give the horse his head; and, his head being given him, he made a very unpleasant use of it: tossing it into the air with great disdain, and running into the parlour windows over the way; after performing those feats, and supporting himself for a short time on his hind – legs, he started off at great speed, and rattled out of the town right gallantly. Oliver Twist
Unhappiness fuels great disdain for all of suburbia and its inhabitants.
And I suspect that it's a linguistic universal for farm animals, crops and food products to figure in terms of disdain and abuse.
Anastasio, and so unsufferable, that after a long time of fruitlesse service, requited still with nothing but coy disdaine; desperate resolutions entred into his brain, and often he was minded to kill himselfe. The Decameron
This impetuous and fiery temperament was rendered yet more fearful by the indulgence of every intemperance; it fed on wine and lust; its very virtues strengthened its vices, -- its courage stifled every whisper of prudence; its intellect, uninured to all discipline, taught it to disdain every obstacle to its desires. The Last of the Barons — Complete
Throughout the Mekong delta, local officials who disdained Tu Duc nevertheless quit the provincial administration rather than submit to alien rule.
The episodes with beatniks and coffee houses are striking: while Mason epitomizes cool, he disdains nihilism.
This disdain for legality - well concealed behind statesmanlike rhetoric - corresponds directly with a second vice: not telling the public the truth.
Hers, I thought, must be a curious soul, where in spite of a strong, natural tendency to estimate unduly advantages of wealth and station, the sardonic disdain of a fortuneless subordinate had wrought a deeper impression than could be imprinted by the most flattering assiduities of a prosperous The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
Here's another quote from Blueprint, that we think might sum up the role of "The Four Horsemen," as they're called disdainfully by bruised Republicans -- from the horse's mouth, page 199: ColoradoPols.com - Front Page
Sis Belle was what was called a hard-shell Baptist, loyal to the death and disdainful of rivals. CLEAR PICTURES
disdaining outside pressure groups
Though he disdains the term "collector"—"Cars are an emotional love for me; I buy cars because they are romantic and beautiful"—Mr. Lauren's garage is home to some of the most historically important cars in the world: A Scaglietti-bodied Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa (1958); a Touring-bodied Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B spider (1938); a rare alloy-bodied Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing (1955) and alloy-bodied Jaguar XKSS (1957). A Man Driven to Distraction
Tully-Veolan, "retorted the other, in huge disdain," that I will make a muir cock of the man that refuses my toast, whether he be a crop-eared Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North
The man who embodies this callousness and disdain more than any other is the widely reviled Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy. A Little Rioting, now and then, is a Good Thing
Her disdainful tone dismissed the idea of anyone desirable sending love letters.
I thought the karma he got by repeatedly getting chumped off by Obama, was deliciously deserved for the disdain he held for Bush; who always seemed to hold our allies with great respect. On being called a bigot and/or racist
But his personal asceticism and disdain for the managerialism of modern politics brought its own difficulties.
Immigrants accept the jobs disdained by the local workforce.
In the postrace news conference, Mr. Bertarelli congratulated Mr. Ellison and BMW Oracle on its victory — "They were faster, so good on them" — but he couldn't hide his disdain for how litigious this competition was. Ellison's BMW Oracle Wins America's Cup
Like an insecure teenager, we shout obscenities, mistaking disdain for interest.
When he proposed working out the latter for publication in _Ha-Meliz_, the editor rejected the idea disdainfully, saying that he preferred translations to original stories, so little likely did it seem that realistic writing could be done in The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885)
Not yet aware of this truth, nor, indeed, in the least suspecting Gawtrey of worse offences than those of a charlatanic and equivocal profession, the young man mused over his protector's cowardice in disdain and wonder: till, wearied with conjectures, distrust, and shame at his own strange position of obligation to one whom he could not respect, he fell asleep. Night and Morning, Complete
Chaplin made no secret of his disdain for stereophonic sound.
I stood in line to get a wristband and was not even asked for i. d.-in fact the young woman in charge didn't even make eye contact with me, probably for fear of laughing or showing her disdain. Vicki Iovine: Girlfriends' Guide to Teenagers: Momma Does Coachella!
Generally our messy shoulder length hair and denims invoked hostility and disdain from our elders and betters.
This man always impresses me with respect, he is so manly, so sweet-tempered, so faithful, so disdainful of all appearances, excellent and reverable in his old weather-worn cap and blue frock bedaubed with the soil of the field, so honest withal, that he always needs to be watched lest he should cheat himself. Uncollected Prose
Of course, Ballard has always disdained or been uninterested in ingratiating himself with any kind of literary social scene.
These were exceptions largely brought about by incompetent leadership, raw recruits, a disdain for the enemy, and involving an element of tactical surprise.
At this hint the captain put on a martial frown, and looked very big, without speaking; while his yokefellow, with a disdainful toss of her nose, muttered something about The Adventures of Roderick Random
And it is this disdain for the other kind of ambition that has led observers to describe him as unserious.
If Hillary is such a leader, so knowledgable about the ways of DC, couldn't she have used some of her clout to voice her disdain for such an obviously "stoopid" policy? Obama: It's Me Against The D.C. Foreign Policy Establishment
This man setteth her out to make her more lovely in her holliday apparell, to the eye of anie that will daine, not to disdaine untill they understand. Defence of Poesie
He has seen off those challenges with the same disdain that he has seen off the death threats, court appearances and kiss-and-tell stories that have plagued his private life.
He ranks high among the great detectives of fiction but does so unobtrusively, disdaining self-advertisement.
He makes clear his disdain by adding ominous music to a montage of clips. Times, Sunday Times
When he would quench his thirst, he disdains to apply the earth-born beaker to his lips, but lets the water fall into his solemn swallow from on high, -- a pleasant feat to see, and one which, like a whirling dervis, diverts you by its agility, while it impresses you by its devotion. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858
But the placid prettiness of Marjorie appealed to him far more than the cold, disdainful beauty of the young woman he had called ungenerous, and who had in her turn called him a cad. The Imaginary Marriage
Now, because he was her client, she tried to look with compassion instead of disdain or repugnance at his unskillful behavior and all the ways he shut himself off.
Of the three countries to put the constitution to the popular vote, two have now disdained it.
The superb disdain with which she met the project frightened these poor people, who were not mistaken in their fears that she was meditating what they called knight-errantry. An Historical Mystery
He suffers no fools gladly, but pursues interesting people at any hour of day or night, for he has utter disdain for social convention. Earthly Powers: Religion and Politics in Europe from the Enlightenment to the Great War
I then give him a disdainful look as he copies Brent's routine. The Sun
Well-known for his disdain for the long rounds, the inclusion of amateurs, and the winter poa annua greens, Woods, for the last several years, has been loath to return to the tournament, where he was once quoted something to the tune of "I see the greens are up to their old tricks again. Barry Salberg: Swinging With the Swells in Monterey
In short, oil has shriveled the promise and stained the soul of an entire country, empowering autocrats who disdain human rights and are oblivious to the misery of its people. Richard North Patterson discusses Eclipse
But in general the Church, as the civiliser of nations, disdained such old wives 'tales. Words
It's like being called a eunuch or an old maid; one always hears that faint sneer of disdain and condescension mixed with pity.
Therefore, the emerging church's disdain for Bush (as well as "American Christianity") and cultural awareness has made for an effective evangelistic force on the otherwise bighted cultural landscape of Europe. Ochuk's blog
Her disdain for loosing is just a reflection of the woman she is. Clinton: Obama will be 'good friend to Israel'
One eyebrow is nearly obscured by the angle of her beret; the other is raised, bemused and disdainful.
As Kant remarked, this is said in a lofty, disdainful tone, full of the presumption of wanting to reform reason by experience.
They often display snobbish, disdainful or patronizing attitudes.
And what have I read in response: rants against George W.Bush as though he's still in office, self-serving I'm misunderstood, citations of nebulous studies to confirm a personal hatred, more than one response that while espousing disdain of "political correctness", still compeled to toe the line with some of the above drivel. TEXAS FAITH: How can religious leaders keep Fort Hood incident from creating fear, tension and misunderstanding? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
But the disdain of these accomplished economists for supply-side economics can easily be deduced from their writings and congressional testimony.
All were rooted in the nineteenth-century stance of the artist as critical outsider, disdainful of the niceties of the bourgeoisie.
Like the father who asked me all shocked at a BBQ this past labour day if I let my child eat sweets (imagine the horror and disdain laced in that sentence) because I had allowed Peanut to have some custard. This Is The Song That Never Ends
Sadly, however, I was witness to many more instances where dayanim treated women petitioners, as well as their female lawyers, with a disdain bordering on hostility.
In a climate where the very idea of academic judgement is disdained, it is hardly surprising that some would cling to what appears to be a more precise and scientific approach.
I wonder if these were partly caused by the urban residents themselves who have long since shown little concern, even disdain, for those who trade physical labour for subsistence.
He always disdained the idea of a ‘cradle competition’ between rich and poor, native and immigrant, white and black.
In the novel, Henry's rugged individualism and disdain for society are stylizations of his father's misanthropy.
And I believe he puts a lot of weight on loyalty, and he disdains disloyalty.
Bourbon glories, so extolled by him, glorifies, apropos of the coronation of Charles X., the Napoleon whom in 1814 he called disdainfully "Buonaparte," loading him with the most cutting insults: -- The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X
Most people outside Westminster will take a dim view of their arrogant disdain for democracy. The Sun
The Italians who owned the hotel were miserable gits whom I felt treated our party with disdain because they were older people.
In particular, "Chocolate Wars" follows the history of the British Cadbury chocolate company, owned by a couple of extraordinarily decent and virtuous Quaker brothers, George and Richard Cadbury, who disdained the callous and ruthless business practices of many of their Victorian rivals, put the welfare of their workers first and developed a series of marvelous chocolate products as well. Deborah Cadbury's "The Chocolate Wars," reviewed by Carolyn See
Here in Edinburgh they are seething with jealousy, but adopting a veneer of lofty disdain. Times, Sunday Times
But no matter about my spiteful little asides, my haughty disdain. Times, Sunday Times
But as an adult, I regarded the memory of these trips with a mildly affectionate disdain – ah, such innocent fun, but such bourgeois misunderstanding of what constitutes NATURE and WILDERNESS. In The Outside | Her Bad Mother
“We appeal to you, O readers of the sacred books, not to hearken to their contents with weariness and disdain for what seems to be their unpleasing method of narration” (“Deprecamur vos, O auditores sacrorum voluminum, non cum taedio vel fastidio ea quae leguntur, audire pro eo quod minus delectabilis eorum videtur esse narratio”); cp. The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries
The cabinet was deaccessioned in 1929, a victim of twentieth-century disdain for the later nineteenth century.
Luckily for some of us there is still a healthy amount of hostility and disdain in both of these lovely little cities to balance things out.
The knee-jerk disdain so many of his critics have for him can be traced largely to his worldliness: He's a man who, of necessity, was brought up not to be Joe the Plumber but a citizen of the planet.
That said, I'm beginning to sense a certain ratcheting of disdain and contempt for current US policies that is morphing more and more into editorialising rather than journalism.
The absolute disdain for politics of the aesthete is in itself a political choice. Politics and Literature
The Proms is definitely Dress Down, and I was in a fleece, combat-style jeans and trainers, and I got a few disdaining looks for those dressed for a cultivated Friday night out.
We do it now or face the repercussions in the future, much to our dismay and disdain.
this Pope Center essay, Prof. Tom Bertonneau argues that many young Americans - those who disdain books and any but the lightest reading - are sliding back into "orality," the state that precedes literacy. Phi Beta Cons on National Review Online
He had spent a political lifetime trying to instil the habits of democracy in his people - a disdain for dictators, an abiding faith in the constitutional system.
A member of the church's all-male choir expressed his disdain. Times, Sunday Times
Nor was he enraptured by "the small change of Oxford evenings", and he was startled by the erratic inebriety of such celebrated Oxonians as Richard Cobb, although he shared Cobb's disdain for the uncritical Francophilia of so many of their colleagues. Tony Judt obituary
He was one of those earnest and highwrought enthusiasts who now are almost extinct upon earth, and whom Romance has not hitherto attempted to pourtray; men not uncommon in the last century, who were devoted to knowledge, yet disdainful of its fame; who lived for nothing else than to learn. Eugene Aram — Volume 01
Like other populists, Chavez disdains any party institutionalization that might constrain his personal autonomy.
Who would have ever guessed that she could treat him so disdainfully?
In the past, it was almost compulsory to have a blocker, someone who would occasionally hit the bad ball but as likely to treat it with disdain in protection of his wicket.
It is not surprising that they showed such disdain. Times, Sunday Times
Their accounts tend to be an uneasy mix of admiration and disdain. Times, Sunday Times
Dare the uppity saleswomen at Saks or Gucci treat her with disdain?
Tremblay, of course, is the most Québécois of Québécois playwrights, the man who first introduced the Quebec slang joual to the stage - despite the disdain of some critics - with the first production of his The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Kenneth Branagh preens himself amusingly as buttery fop, explorer and new Defence Against The Dark Arts teacher Gilderoy Lockhart; Jason Isaacs is disdain personified as the villainous Lucius Malfoy.
However, the change in tone of the Oscar ceremony disproportionately affects what the women will wear if ballroom gowns are disdained.
With a moue of disdain, she threw her only line of contact with Ruston Grady into the nearest waste bin.
Bach himself did not disdain to transcribe Vivaldi concertos for organ or harpsichord and to borrow fugue-subjects from Legrenzi and Corelli.
Margarita, as beautifull as the best: but yet so peevish, scornefull, and fantasticall, that she disdained any good advice given her; neyther could any thing be done, to cause her contentment; which absurd humors were highly displeasing to her husband: but in regard he knew not how to helpe it, constrainedly he did endure it. The Decameron
In the bishops they saw pomposity and rampant corruption, disdain for biblical teaching, and addiction to ceremony. Christianity Today
And just so you know, misogyny is greatly disdained here. A friendly suggestion to former McCain campaign staffers. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
Pentecostals have endured more than their share of dismissive scholarship, condescending analysis, and popular disdain.
` ` Fear! '' said El Hakim, repeating the word disdainfully --- The Talisman
She looked haughty and stuck-up, her face disdainful as she looked down at me.
Mr, Grandison, with a noble disdain, appealed to Jeronymo’s cooler deli-beration; and told him, that he never would meet, as a foe, the man he had ever been desirous to consider as his friend. Sir Charles Grandison
His fellow presenters have also shown their disdain for their soon-to-be former colleague. Times, Sunday Times
They will remain hostile to any political party that seems to disdain their convictions.
It was traditional bibliomancy called estekhareh, disdained by some clerics as irrational and akin to spiritual gambling, but a method sometimes used by Supreme Leader Khamenei. Let the Swords Encircle Me
The love of it clung to him to the last moments of his life; but tho he felt that last infirmity of noble minds, never did there breathe a human being who had a more lofty disdain for the shallow and treacherous popularity which is to be courted by subserviency, and purchased at the expense of principle and duty. On Catholic Relief
Mr. Dimon's disdain for the process has been crescendoing for some time. Mr. Dimon Goes to Washington
Having third paries put on the truth on McCain and Republcans can only help the Democrats in the fall -- especially since the Obama campaign disdains to do this. David Brock's Tough-Talking Third-Party Group Fizzles
I suppose if you're the sort who "outgrew" pondering the meaning of life, Colin Wilson is a perfect target for your disdain. A nasty business ...
Those who disdain wealth as crass materialism need to understand that wealth is one of the biggest life-saving factors in the world.
He nodded abruptly, but his eyes were still filled with displeasure and disdain.
I may get to novels where I feel that he dislikes or disdains a female character, but for now I'm trying hard not to make the kind of congealed judgment that makes it hard to read for reading's sake. Karen Stabiner: The Philip Roth Reader: Who Cares What Kind of Husband He Was?
-- I, who have valued myself on my abilities! who have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity, in useless or blameable distrust. Paul Raushenbush: What Kind of Life Do You Want to Live? Reflections On Graduation Day
Where dissent rears its ugly head let us behave with studied disdain and act as if some oik has committed some dreadful faux pas and ignore the blighter.
She looked me up and down and had complete disdain on her face from the way I looked. The Sun
Many truly 'street' artists, the taggers, are disdainfully suspicious of graffiti's commodification. Times, Sunday Times
Rene replied with a look that was much more disdainful and stuck-up than she had intended, and walked quickly out the door.
To the defensive or culpable Right Winger the emotion-based gesticulations of the flailing Liberal plaintiffs will never sway them and only serve to illustrate their already disdainful characterizations of the limp-wristed Left. Steven Weber: Listen to the Mocking Bird
Mrs Grey disdained to answer her husband's rude remarks.
… Collectively these newcomers wielded billions of dollars of available capital, petawatts of imperious brainpower, a practiced disdain for bureaucratic pettifogs, and Olympian con ﬁ dence in their own judgment and capabilities. SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
In Leicester, though, they treat those twin impostors, panic and the ticking clock, with disdain.
She seems bubbly and fun one minute and cold and disdainful the next. The Sun
It is to be supposed, however, that politics had managed in some way to slip into this existence devoted to muscular exercise and the hippic science, for, from a heap of the morning journals disdainfully flung upon the floor by the worthy colonel, Monsieur de Trailles picked up a copy of the legitimist organ, in which he read, under the heading of ELECTIONS, the following article: The Deputy of Arcis
Most people outside Westminster will take a dim view of their arrogant disdain for democracy. The Sun
But the junior magistrate, a kind-hearted man, troubled at what seemed to him a certain sardonical disdain, lurking beneath the foundling's humble mien, and in Christian sympathy more distressed at it on his account than on his own, dimly surmising what might be the final fate of such a cynic solitaire, nor perhaps uninfluenced by the general strangeness of surrounding things, this good magistrate had glanced sadly, sideways from the speaker, and thereupon his foreboding eye had started at the expression of the unchanging face of the Hour Una. The Piazza Tales
The servants continue to hover disdainfully on the sidelines, grudgingly carrying out the master's orders.
Either he will hotly deny the accusation, or he will attempt to justify his disdain for or hatred of women.
They know a request to kitchen staff will not be met with disdain; our domestics regularly help with feeding debilitated patients in the absence of nursing staff.
Would we feel the same disdain for people who wrote postcards on the beach? Times, Sunday Times
Given that organisation's lofty disdain for those of us working in the popular press, it is also very tempting to do so.
But he made his disdain clear: as far back as 1954, he complained of his ‘beefing, threatening, foxing and conniving.’
Their accounts tend to be an uneasy mix of admiration and disdain. Times, Sunday Times
They all start off with a bit of fight in them, you know the old total lack of respect and total disdain for the law.
To be sure, when I first knew her, she had rather a high and mighty way with her, at which some people took offence, calling her proud and disdainful; but those whom she wished to please never failed to like her; and I used to observe she seldom put on any of her lofty airs when she spoke to unpresuming people, especially if they were poor or in humble circumstances. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
They often display snobbish, disdainful or patronizing attitudes.
Given the climate of opinion, she would be foolish to describe them with anything other than mere disdain.
Now, because he was her client, she tried to look with compassion instead of disdain or repugnance at his unskillful behavior and all the ways he shut himself off.
In their own way, they were both iconoclasts with a common weakness: a deep-rooted disdain for brutish, clear-cut answers.
Our Gallic neighbours sipped disdainfully at orange juice.
Just think about the dirty looks women often get when they announce that they don't want to have children, or the disdain with which the 'childfree' discuss to choice to have them. REVIEW: The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall
Its unmetaphorical use is, of course, commonest in the combination _transi de froid_, "frozen," and so suggests in the other a lover shivering actually under his mistress's shut window, or, metaphorically, under her disdain. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
Adding to the proceedings the tale of the antiseptic marriage of Peter (Jeff Allin) and Ann (Colleen Delany) does lay the groundwork for some intriguing parallels: Peter is a smugly self-sufficient target for both Ann and Jerry (James McMenamin), who share a restless disdain for the status quo - and a potential to explode. 'At Home at the Zoo' expands Albee's classic one-act play
But I guess she's just one of those "cheerleaders" or "Colonel Blimps" Taylor dismisses so disdainfully. Scott Taylor: FAIL
He would meet, when need be, the grim-visaged monster of dissolution with the dignity of a stoic, but by habit disdained not to dodge the shadow with the practised agility of a filcher and scamp. Under the Rose
Cheered by dynastic thoughts, he forgets his disdain for the wedding-favour, a chaplet of carnations, he is obliged to wear.
It had already been instrumented, and Rex toed the weatherproof case of the old seismograph with disdain. MINUTES TO BURN
It was exactly these human frailties, as well as his disdain for the gym, which explained his huge popularity with the public. Times, Sunday Times
The coachman who drove these Princesses of yours "-- Mrs. Parry always used this phrase disdainfully --" is a new man. A Coin of Edward VII A Detective Story
Robinson Crusoe ,' Arthur's eyebrow rose disdainfully, `he wrote it. BEHINDLINGS
Perigryne felt his gaze upon her once again, but she disdained to move from her position.
I stashed my shoes in the cubicles outside; in a Japanese bathhouse, street shoes are regarded with a disdain reserved in the West for biological refuse or festering rubbish.

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