How To Use Disdainful In A Sentence
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He is highly disdainful of anything to do with the literary establishment.
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The woman strode past him with a disdainful sneer and entering the temple, glanced about.
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Some faculty members seem to express a condescending, at times almost disdainful, attitude.
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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
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He is highly disdainful of anything to do with the literary establishment.
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I then give him a disdainful look as he copies Brent's routine.
The Sun
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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
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Many qualitative researchers are disdainful of approaches to research that entail the imposition of predetermined formats on the social world.
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some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines
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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.
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They hewed to a narrow ideological range, disdainful of progressives on the left and Patrick Buchanan on the right.
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cried Roderick, pushing aside his half-eaten porridge with a disdainful grimace.
NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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This may be anathema to top-flight diplomats disdainful of consular drudgery and commercialism.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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Sis Belle was what was called a hard-shell Baptist, loyal to the death and disdainful of rivals.
CLEAR PICTURES
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Her disdainful tone dismissed the idea of anyone desirable sending love letters.
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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I then give him a disdainful look as he copies Brent's routine.
The Sun
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One eyebrow is nearly obscured by the angle of her beret; the other is raised, bemused and disdainful.
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As Kant remarked, this is said in a lofty, disdainful tone, full of the presumption of wanting to reform reason by experience.
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They often display snobbish, disdainful or patronizing attitudes.
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All were rooted in the nineteenth-century stance of the artist as critical outsider, disdainful of the niceties of the bourgeoisie.
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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
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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
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Who would have ever guessed that she could treat him so disdainfully?
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` ` Fear! '' said El Hakim, repeating the word disdainfully ---
The Talisman
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She looked haughty and stuck-up, her face disdainful as she looked down at me.
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Many truly 'street' artists, the taggers, are disdainfully suspicious of graffiti's commodification.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rene replied with a look that was much more disdainful and stuck-up than she had intended, and walked quickly out the door.
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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
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She seems bubbly and fun one minute and cold and disdainful the next.
The Sun
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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
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The servants continue to hover disdainfully on the sidelines, grudgingly carrying out the master's orders.
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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
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They often display snobbish, disdainful or patronizing attitudes.
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Our Gallic neighbours sipped disdainfully at orange juice.
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But I guess she's just one of those "cheerleaders" or "Colonel Blimps" Taylor dismisses so disdainfully.
Scott Taylor: FAIL
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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
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Robinson Crusoe ,' Arthur's eyebrow rose disdainfully, `he wrote it.
BEHINDLINGS
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He is highly disdainful of anything to do with the literary establishment.
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Gordons_, -- _not_ the _Seyton Gordons_, as she disdainfully termed the ducal branch, -- told me the story, always reminding me how superior _her_
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
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Here was a hero with icy eyes and a disdainful mouth - typically male!
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His face was cold and disdainful, and his back was straight with haughty pride.
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There prevails at present, an attitude that is all at once, mutually suspicious, disdainful and hostile.
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She was a woman with the eyes of an angel, disdainful of men, the mouth of insatiety, the hair and skin of a Lorelei, and a patrician profile.
The Conqueror
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He looks disdainful and contemptuous and furious with his guests because he by and large is.
Times, Sunday Times
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Greenland hyenas disdainfully sniff me I am not in the desert! the air pauses I hear the grating of poles on their axles the air drones I impotently attend the decivilization of my mind the air brings me the Zambezi
Bookslut
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Danny stepped away, and cast one last disdainful look at Scott before going backstage, and presumably leaving the theater.
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Several of the priests in the procession looked over the crowd with disdainful, superior expressions.
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It was always difficult, despite the president's disdainful silence on the subject, to imagine that all this was going on without his knowledge.
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You, sir, must pretend in this disdainful manner to court me?
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Arnault, for one, is disdainful of "masstige," or prestige for the masses.
BEST OF THE BEST
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The Rangers captain struggles to disguise disgust with himself when he misplaces a pass and can look disdainfully in the direction of malfunctioning teammates too.
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His eyes darkened, his disdainful expression frozen in place.
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A cart yoked with five horses abreast stood by the galpon; a flock of geese walked with disdainful, important gait across the potrero; and the viscashos popped in and out of their holes with busy importance, like children keeping house.
Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir
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What she, or anyone else for that matter," disdainfully, "could want with Tommy, I don't know," replied Mary.
The Shuttle
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The Englishman quits this life proudly and disdainfully when the whim takes him, but the Roman must have an indulgentia in articulo mortis; he can neither live nor die.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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She looked haughty and stuck-up, her face disdainful as she looked down at me.
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It's all in that gaze, simultaneously serene and disdainful.
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I was aware of my voice raising in volume and pitch and other passengers looking disdainfully at me.
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Very few movies seem as disdainful of their audience to quite the degree of this one.
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The punky couple gave me a disdainful look, and I could only slink out abashed.
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All were rooted in the nineteenth-century stance of the artist as critical outsider, disdainful of the niceties of the bourgeoisie.
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Wendigo: Wise and powerful, aloof and disdainful.
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The railway people were disdainful of their customers.
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He was disdainful of modern teaching methods and some subjects.
Times, Sunday Times
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And viciously contemning the Church more often than not entails a disdainful sidelong glance at the benighted faithful who persist in allegiance to her.
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He held his head stiffly with his nose angled upward and his lips pursed with a superior, disdainful expression.
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He was enjoying a pipe with the same disdainful congratulation of self with which some men enjoy total abstinence.
MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
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The two first were themselves emphatically "eccentrics" -- one an apostle of dandyism (he actually wrote a book about Brummel, whom he had met early), a disdainful critic of rather untrustworthy vigour, and a stalwart reactionary to Catholicism and Royalism; the other a devotee of the exact opposite of dandyism, as the title of his best-known book, _Les
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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Disdainful of this so-called unbreakable barrier, Popov has shattered it a dozen times, leading the way for others.
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The simple words oozed with disdainful contempt that seemed to pass unnoticed.
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Don't overestimate your importance in the operation," Saisse retorted disdainfully.
CODE BREAKER
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No one was openly hostile, but a few exhibited a rather disdainful sneer as they walked by.
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It is advisable that he weigh more carefully his disdainful utterances if he wants to be taken seriously beyond the narrow circle of his lickspittles.
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One eyebrow is nearly obscured by the angle of her beret; the other is raised, bemused and disdainful.
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I climb here, gazing round, above, beneath, wholly encompassed by the ocean's scene; and there I send the gods supreme oblation, scattered beyond in jeweled scintillation over the depths, disdainful and serene.
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It would be arrogant and disdainful of you to assume that glorious mantle by yourself.
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Don't overestimate your importance in the operation," Saisse retorted disdainfully.
CODE BREAKER
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And Lord Lytton, the conservative viceroy whose elaborately choreographed durbar Cannadine interprets as Britain's homage to India's deeply rooted "feudal order" and to the princes who were both its "expression" and its "apogee," explained the ornateness of that ceremony in pragmatic, rather disdainful terms: "The further East you go, the greater becomes the importance of a bit of bunting.
A Bit of Bunting
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I opt for a different approach, which involves standing up abruptly at the next stop, pulling my skirt from under his leg sharply, and shooting a disdainful glare over my shoulder as I flounce over to sit on a nearby strapontin.
Bribery
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He looks disdainful and contemptuous and furious with his guests because he by and large is.
Times, Sunday Times
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She seems bubbly and fun one minute and cold and disdainful the next.
The Sun
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People had begun to frown disdainfully in my direction and the distance between us widened.
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Several well-dressed older women shot them disdainful looks before looking away, noses upturned.
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Though her words were perfectly respectful, there was a disdainful tone to her voice.
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But instead, she had not even a disdainful snort to give.
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Here was a hero with icy eyes and a disdainful mouth - typically male!
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He is highly disdainful of anything to do with the literary establishment.
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He gestured to Straeger, who was looking so disdainfully at her that Voelker could feel the withering contempt radiating from him as though he were telepathic himself.
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Then I did meekly remind her of her flirtatious preferences for the young beef-witted London chaps, and her incertitude and disdainful capriciousness towards myself, who was not a beetlehead or an obtuse, but a cultivated native gentleman with high-class university degree, and an oratorical flow of language which was infallibly to land me upon the pinnacle of some tip-top judicial preferment in the Calcutta High Court of Justice.
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
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He was enjoying a pipe with the same disdainful congratulation of self with which some men enjoy total abstinence.
MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
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He looks disdainful and contemptuous and furious with his guests because he by and large is.
Times, Sunday Times
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Howard disdainfully and proudly refuses, tearing the thing from his face.
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Mrs. Chesters could ride, had enjoyed the social advantages of the Quorn and Pytchley, but she hated what she called disdainfully,
Border Ghost Stories
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Secondly, I note that again reference is made in what I deem to be a fairly mocking and disdainful way to the Manx "only recently decriminalising homosexuality and repealing its birching law".
Archive 2006-11-01
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He looks disdainful and contemptuous and furious with his guests because he by and large is.
Times, Sunday Times
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A disdainful pull shot over mid-on and mid-wicket is just such a shot and yesterday, en route to his 14th Test century, he played it twice.
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The Tories are openly disdainful.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are well known for their arrogance and their disdainful, patronising attitude.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thomas Leeser , the architect tasked with a $40 million renovation of the Strand structure funded by the city, state and private donations as part of the city's plan to create a new cultural district in the area, is also disdainful of the idea that the Strand is anything more than a fixer-upper dressed up a historic structure.
Designing Brooklyn's Future
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They are well known for their arrogance and their disdainful, patronising attitude.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was the classic dour, authoritarian socialist, a masterly desk and committee politician but disdainful of and untalented at electoral politics.
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Moreouer they are angrie and of a disdainfull nature vnto other people, and beyond all measure deceitfull, and treacherous towards them.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini
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The Tories are openly disdainful.
Times, Sunday Times
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He looks disdainful and contemptuous and furious with his guests because he by and large is.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the fact that the leadership of the school and a number of the most senior teachers were either utterly disdainful of the students they taught, or had completely given up on the educability of the kids, had a terrible effect on overall staff motivation.
Whitney Tilson: The Need to Eliminate Seniority-Based Layoff Policies
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Every year, laws specifying time limits for loudspeakers are issued, only to be disdainfully transgressed.
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Mrs Eappen's voice called disdainfully, 'Wait there.'
Two women
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The men disdainfully repelled the idea of having deserted the defence of their city; and one, the youngest among them, in answer to the taunt of a sailor, exclaimed, Take it, Christian dogs! take the palaces, the gardens, the mosques, the abode of our fathers -- take plague with them; pestilence is the enemy we fly; if she be your friend, hug her to your bosoms.
II.2
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Is he trustworthy enough so that you don't have to feel fearful about exulting over it in front of your conservative friends who seem mightily disdainful?
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Imagine thinking the lack of a spittoon entitles you to spit on the stairs repeatedly and to be disdainful of the poor old woman who has had to clean it up for being insufficiently happy to see you!
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Mr. Layton also took a strip off Mr. Harper for what he described as a dismissive and disdainful attitude towards workers who have lost their jobs.
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Most of the time he fell back on cold disdainful looks and mocking sneers, which were working out pretty well.
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The woman strode past him with a disdainful sneer and entering the temple, glanced about.
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Some faculty members seem to express a condescending, at times almost disdainful, attitude.
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In growing meekness Babbitt went on waiting till Hanson casually reappeared with a quart of gin — what is euphemistically known as a quart — in his disdainful long white hands.
Babbit
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I'm not arguing that employers should be disdainful of their workers' happiness.
