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high-hatted

verb

past tense of high-hat
1
as in disdained
to show contempt for one presidential candidate presents himself as an outsider who has long been high-hatted by the Beltway elite

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2
as in isolated
to deliberately ignore or treat rudely was high-hatted by an old college friend who's now a power player on Wall Street

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for high-hatted
  1. disdained
  2. isolated
  3. hated
  4. rejected
  5. disrespected
  6. cut
  7. despised
  8. repulsed
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  • In this sense, Mehring’s play is echoing Einstein’s critique of the wealthy German Jews who disdained their poorer Eastern cousins.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Although the Constitution requires congressional involvement in war-making, Trump like Nixon disdained that mandate with terrible consequences.
    — Elizabeth Holtzman, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of disdained
Verb
  • Firefighters repeatedly reported long waits The Station 30 records are not isolated.
    — Brian Maass, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Mitragynine is a naturally occurring alkaloid that can be isolated from the leaves of Mitragyna speciosa, a medicinal plant also known as kratom, according to the National Center for Biotechnology Information’s National Library of Medicine.
    — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of isolated
Verb
  • Well, everyone knows Ebenezer Scrooge was an evil, wealthy miser who hated Christmas.
    — Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Biggart demanded independence, hated being contradicted in public, and believed in rough discipline.
    — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of hated
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  • This strategy also helps employers get to know phenomenal candidates whose applications are going to accidentally be rejected by the ATS and AI systems.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The Alliance rejected accusations of greenwashing at the time, saying its mandate was to identify scalable collection, sorting and recycling solutions and that projects operating at the edge of commercial viability would not all succeed.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of rejected
Verb
  • Unanswered emails can make people feel ignored or disrespected, or jump to worrying or envisioning worst-case scenarios, such as being on the brink of getting laid off or fired.
    — Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Tampa Bay Buccaneers Baker Mayfield feels disrespected, and Mike Evans is gone.
    — Gladys Louise Tyler, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of disrespected
Verb
  • Lopez tossed a 17-yard touchdown pass to Carlos Hernandez to cut Miami’s lead to 11 points.
    — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2026
  • The decline raises the prospect of an interest rate cut by the central bank at next week’s monetary policy committee meeting, the penultimate one for this year.
    — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of cut
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  • And Hadl, who both was an assistant coach and later an administrator at KU, not to mention one of the greatest KU players of all time, also despised the Tigers.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2026
  • By the end, Moreno was as despised by his fanbase as any owner in baseball.
    — Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of despised
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  • Young people just aren’t interested, partly because they’re repulsed by bodily fluids.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026
  • His recent comments didn’t favor the Browns fanbase, and many Cleveland fans seem viscerally repulsed by him.
    — Andy Behrens, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of repulsed
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“High-hatted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high-hatted. Accessed 20 Sep. 2026.

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