Example sentences for: disdain

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

  • In Israel, strict Orthodox Jews disdain Reform and Conservative conversions as little more than circumcision for the men and immersion in a ritual bath for the women.

  • 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.

  • For those of you who have only disdain for the current ratemaking process---the length of time it takes and the cost of litigation---please keep in mind that the PRC process affords the only opportunity you may have to truly scrutinize this swing before you get the next $1.

  • Competitors disdain its lowbrow tone but nurse a bad case of circulation envy.

  • "Too often, my party has confused the need for limited government with a disdain for government itself," Bush said Tuesday.


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