How to Use deign in a Sentence

deign

verb

• I wouldn't deign to answer that absurd accusation.
• The man behind the counter may or may not deign to greet you.
  — Anne Kadet, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2018
• So when the universe deigned to help out, astronomers jumped at the chance.
  — Joshua Sokol, Scientific American, 5 June 2018
• The fast food nugget has faced criticism over the years — no one would deign to call them healthy.
  — Lucas Kwan Peterson Food Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2021
• Maybe now the Tonys will deign to give an award for playwriting.
  — Vulture, 8 June 2023
• The fact that our government would deign to try limit our rights is ridiculous.
  — Zahra Barnes, SELF, 14 July 2017
• Only thinness could deliver the prize of health care providers who would deign to treat me.
  — Your Fat Friend, SELF, 1 Sep. 2020
• The best players deigned to have their own teams and could be happy only as the Jordans of their fiefs.
  — Harvey Araton, New York Times, 4 July 2016
• Moonlight seems to simply descend, deigning to visit us for the evening.
  — Ben Huberman, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2017
• And what about produce that’s so eccentric that even a farmer won’t deign to consume it?
  — Henry Alford, The New Yorker, 29 July 2019
• Moonlight seems to simply descend, deigning to visit us for the evening.
  — Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian, 21 June 2017
• Brown, like Coons, did not deign to mention who was saying these things.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 10 Nov. 2020
• MBrown suffers us fools who deign to ask him questions about his business.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 28 May 2019
• Crowe's unnamed protagonist doesn't even deign to speak in the opening scene.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 18 Aug. 2020
• Some alumni of prestigious schools won’t deign to wear their own school’s gear, anyway.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 18 Jan. 2021
• Similarly, penguins will only deign to eat whole fish that are less than six inches in length and no more than an inch wide.
  — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 11 Sep. 2017
• This requires a lot of time and discipline but brings no glory, which is probably why none of the male editors deign to do it.
  — Laura Marsh, The New Republic, 12 Feb. 2020
• The Supreme Court didn’t even deign to hear his legal arguments about voter fraud.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2020
• Of course Dimon, who fancies himself a truth-teller, did not deign to name names.
  — Daniel Gross, Slate Magazine, 17 July 2017
• Suits may be going the way of the dodo and sneakers may be infiltrating the cubicle, but can a man at least deign to tuck in his shirt on weekdays?
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2018
• This has been going on for years, and every once in a while, one half of the power couple actually deigns to respond.
  — refinery29.com, 24 May 2018
• Only the majesty of the West was good enough for them—they'd never deign to spend a weekend on one of the rinky-dink mountains of the Northeast.
  — Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Oct. 2022
• Though one expects the royals, like de Havilland, won’t be deigning to comment.
  — Rebecca Keegan, VanityFair.com, 19 Apr. 2017
• This is in keeping with Trump’s vision of life as an eternal revenge plot against those who have deigned to underestimate him.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Dec. 2017
• Uses polygon alerts deigned to help reduce false alarms by alerting you to severe weather based on exact location within the county.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 16 Dec. 2019
• When unearthed the next season, the infused libation, painfully pungent and hot enough to draw tears and peel paint, will be at the ready for any of the pirate ilk who deign to heed the call of the black flag and board ship.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• Dany, meanwhile, was on her throne with her people in front of her, starting at a moment’s notice when Jon deigned to take a step toward her.
  — Elyse Roth, Glamour, 31 July 2017
• If your dog won’t deign to sip from a dish, consider giving this slick and smart dog water bottle from PupFlask a try.
  — Sara Coughlin, SELF, 8 July 2021
• When the latter did deign to show Arsenal again, its commentators refused to say Özil’s name.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2020
• And then after that, LePage had the balls to not just get pissed when a democratic colleague deigned to suggest that maybe the Governor was racist.
  — Jack Moore, GQ, 7 July 2017

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