deigned; deigning; deigns
: to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop
would not even deign to talk to him
One iconoclastic architect, for example, doesn't deign to speak of bathrooms.—Carol Vogel
: to condescend to give or offer
never so much as deigning a glance—George Meredith
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Merriam-Webster unabridged
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