How To Use Disdainfully In A Sentence
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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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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.
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Mrs Eappen's voice called disdainfully, 'Wait there.'
Two women
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Every year, laws specifying time limits for loudspeakers are issued, only to be disdainfully transgressed.
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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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Howard disdainfully and proudly refuses, tearing the thing from his face.
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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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People had begun to frown disdainfully in my direction and the distance between us widened.
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Don't overestimate your importance in the operation," Saisse retorted disdainfully.
CODE BREAKER
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Don't overestimate your importance in the operation," Saisse retorted disdainfully.
CODE BREAKER
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Robinson Crusoe ,' Arthur's eyebrow rose disdainfully, `he wrote it.
BEHINDLINGS
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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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But I guess she's just one of those "cheerleaders" or "Colonel Blimps" Taylor dismisses so disdainfully.
Scott Taylor: FAIL
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Our Gallic neighbours sipped disdainfully at orange juice.
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The servants continue to hover disdainfully on the sidelines, grudgingly carrying out the master's orders.
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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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Many truly 'street' artists, the taggers, are disdainfully suspicious of graffiti's commodification.
Times, Sunday Times
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` ` Fear! '' said El Hakim, repeating the word disdainfully ---
The Talisman
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Who would have ever guessed that she could treat him so disdainfully?
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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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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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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:
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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
