Example sentences for: disdain

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

  • Even if his private life were relevant, once again Jones' unrelieved disdain for his subject obscures any possible connections.

  • Rorty says radical academicians should wipe that sophistical smirk off their faces, lose their mocking disdain for America, and view it more as their progressive ancestors did: as a great, problem-filled country that must be brought into closer alignment with its ideals.

  • With respect to the philosophy of mind, there seems to be something of an enthusiast's disdain for the niceties of philosophical pettifogging, even arguing by assertion.

  • Consider the daily impact of AOL, which has risen from obscurity to disdain to prominence in only five years.

  • 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.


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