Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Disdainful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Disdainful.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
disdain .
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Examples
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Fordham was bewildered why he was included in a list of broadcasters Hadley "disdained" in a weekend interview with The Sunday Telegraph, especially as Fordham is an A Current Affair journalist and not a fulltime radio host.
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Fordham was bewildered why he was included in a list of broadcasters Hadley "disdained" in a weekend interview, especially as Fordham is an A Current Affair journalist and not a fulltime radio host.
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Fordham was bewildered why he was included in a list of broadcasters Hadley "disdained" in a weekend interview, especially as Fordham is an A Current Affair journalist and not a fulltime radio host.
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Fordham was bewildered why he was included in a list of broadcasters Hadley "disdained" in a weekend interview with The Sunday Telegraph, especially as Fordham is an A Current Affair journalist and not a fulltime radio host.
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Women over 40 had been "disdained" by Hollywood boardrooms in the past, she said.
Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph 2009
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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 Carolyn See 2010
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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 Carolyn See 2010
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Funny thing, when he was writing The Price of Loyalty, Ron Suskind had no problem seeing and reporting that Bush and his gang not only lacked those qualities, habits, and methods but openly disdained them.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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We had forced upon ourselves the very normalcy we disdained so often in the lives of others and deftly avoided in our own.
Losing Found Things Brett Rosenblatt 2011
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I never told you I disdained your observations, only that they seemed premature.
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