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  • verb rare Simple past tense and past participle of distain.
  • adjective rare stained, discoloured, tarnished

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Examples

  • Such kind of hypocrites are called distained, or coloured.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • Even in Spain, we're hotly distained whether village or city or mountain or plain.

    "McCAIN'S UNCHAINED MELODY" 2008

  • BRINKLEY: The one thing that I think transcends all the other things they have in common between FDR and Ronald Reagan is both of them distained utilitarianism in guise.

    CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2007 2007

  • We knew Viggo has a habit of ignoring rules like this and generally distained the little index cards: so UnViggian!

    Viggo Mortensen vs Evil Elf « raincoaster 2007

  • That in a culture which liberally contracepts while marriage is distained, yet women continue to bear children out of wedlock and into poverty and drug infested 'homes' - is there something morally wrong?

    Archive 2006-07-02 Terry Nelson 2006

  • That in a culture which liberally contracepts while marriage is distained, yet women continue to bear children out of wedlock and into poverty and drug infested 'homes' - is there something morally wrong?

    Archive 2006-07-01 Terry Nelson 2006

  • I distained such schedules partly because I am spoiled example: I would think, I don't need to see Jennifer Armstrong again and partly because I was unaware of how these booths work.

    Archive 2006-06-01 fusenumber8 2006

  • Also if she was a "selkie" she would not be "distained by the islanders".

    Hh Com 333 Miss Snark 2006

  • The scientists who are so distained these days have known and invented innumerable ways to stop the pollution and to use the glut.

    Saturday Thread: Exporting Excrement 2006

  • That in a culture which liberally contracepts while marriage is distained, yet women continue to bear children out of wedlock and into poverty and drug infested 'homes' - is there something morally wrong?

    Rage and murder, it's just a kiss away... Terry Nelson 2006

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