Example sentences for: disdain

How can you use “disdain” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • One cannot easily translate these pejorative suffixes into English: they are a malignly ingenious way of turning an otherwise perfectly inoffensive name into an inherently insulting one, of saying James , for instance, in such a sneering way that no add-on adjectives are needed to convey your obvious but unspecified disdain.

  • I give the expression of disdain; you tell me who said it about what, and then tell me your bankcard PIN code.

  • Such pleasantries are clearly intended to be both polite and friendly, and responding to proffered congeniality with disdain, reproof, or sarcasm is nothing short of boorish.

  • Faculty disdain for students; student disdain for students at other schools.

  • Morris admires Reagan's imagination and will; it's Reagan's intellect and cultural taste he cannot help but disdain.


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