How to Use disdain in a Sentence

disdain

1 of 2 noun

• I have a healthy disdain for companies that mistreat their workers.
• He regarded their proposal with disdain.
• But, again, why the wave of disdain in the first place?
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Sep. 2022
• A president with open disdain for the courts and the press.
  — Jonathan W. White, Smithsonian, 17 Mar. 2017
• The bitterness and the disdain are gone from his voice.
  — Robert King, Indianapolis Star, 9 Feb. 2018
• And the disdain for and ridicule of Utah from around the country lives on, too.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Nov. 2022
• The fact the question is no longer being met with disdain is progress.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2022
• But the best Krakauer also has a touch of disdain for the subject.
  — Joseph Bien-Kahn, Outside Online, 30 Mar. 2018
• The voice in press conferences is not an act of disdain for the media.
  — The Enquirer, 7 Apr. 2022
• The French rider waved his left arm in disdain and swerved back and forth across the road.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 26 July 2019
• The son of the rock legend took to Twitter to express his disdain.
  — Marisa Whitaker, SPIN, 2 June 2022
• Murray expressed some disdain with his doubters on the show.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 18 Nov. 2020
• Few items of clothing have been talked about over the last two decades with more disdain than the low-rise jean.
  — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 10 Sep. 2021
• The populist idea is disdain for restraint, even at the expense of virtue.
  — Bret Stephens New York Times, Star Tribune, 18 Aug. 2020
• His disdain for the cold eliminates a lot of those cities anyway.
  — Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 8 June 2018
• Brown was open with his disdain for the owner's comments.
  — Matt Young, Houston Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2018
• To some, Musk’s apparent disdain for the city feels like salt in the wound.
  — Trisha Thadani, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
• Labrador hasn’t been shy about his disdain for ranked choice voting.
  — Matt Vasilogambros, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2023
• In our house, there was great disdain for wealth and arrogance.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2020
• Musk has publicly expressed his disdain for copyright law in the past.
  — Rachel Shin, Fortune, 15 June 2023
• Nothing pains him more than the disdain of other doctors.
  — John H. Richardson, Esquire, 5 Aug. 2009
• The man who pulled him down is hovering nearby, a look of disdain on his face.
  — New York Times, 21 Sep. 2021
• Rust penned his disdain for this year's budget wrangling in a blog post.
  — Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• Our disdain for looking in the rearview mirror is entrenched in pain and trauma.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 8 Aug. 2023
• The disdain is all gone, and in its place is a kind of honoring that verges on reverence.
  — Daphne Merkin, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
• Whitley is too polite to respond with the classic teenage show of disdain: the eye roll.
  — Dana O'Neil, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2017
• Her disdain is crystal-clear—even when it's buried in synths.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 30 Nov. 2018
• And yet, the disdain for the audience can't be ignored either.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 9 May 2021
• The best ice is hard as diamonds and melts with reluctant disdain.
  — Star Tribune, 9 July 2021
• That cliché had to be discarded, the adviser said, so as not to draw disdain.
  — Gary Gilson, Star Tribune, 6 Feb. 2021

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disdain

2 of 2 verb

• They disdained him for being weak.
• She disdained to answer their questions.
• While most birds peck at food right side up, the nuthatch disdains proper manners.
  — Jerry Shnay, Daily Southtown, 11 June 2018
• Trump is often mocked as someone who likes to return to his own bed at night, who disdains long trips abroad.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 11 May 2018
• Trump and Bolton both appear to disdain alliances and many forms of diplomacy.
  — Elizabeth Saunders, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2018
• Schemes were hatched in the repulsive latrines, where guards disdained to enter.
  — New York Times, 21 Sep. 2019
• Spend hours learning a recipe your family will disdain.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Feb. 2021
• The everyday life of the soul, the things that the big picture of history usually omits, or disdains.
  — Rachel Donadio, New York Times, 20 May 2016
• The cards served the dual purpose of helping young pupils learn their letters — and disdain religion.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2022
• The Bible, in its reader-unfriendly way, disdains to tell us.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2014
• Adlon disdains cutesiness and avoids almost all of the genre’s familiar clichés.
  — Willa Paskin, Slate Magazine, 13 Sep. 2017
• In the long run, there’s less safety for everyone when the public and the police distrust and disdain each other.
  — Caille Millner, SFChronicle.com, 24 Jan. 2020
• Gunmakers were no longer avoiding the gun that many had once regarded as the kind of weapon that society would disdain.
  — Todd C. Frankel, Shawn Boburg, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker and Alex Horton, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
• The titles leave little doubt about how much disdain the authors have for the schools meant to prepare future leaders in business.
  — George Siedel, The Conversation, 27 June 2022
• His vehicle would be a form he both enjoyed and disdained—pulp fiction.
  — Henry Louis Gates, Jr., New York Times Book Review, 20 Sept. 1992
• For botanist and writer Sandra Knapp, the approach was closer to disdain.
  — Dominique Browning, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
• Please do not read this in any way to disdain the people commemorating the loss of Pearl Grover.
  — cleveland, 26 Feb. 2022
• Most of the characters in the book simply disdain other people, period.
  — Jess Bergman, The New Republic, 22 June 2022
• To this day, ambition is often celebrated in a man and disdained in a woman.
  — Tory Burch, Time, 22 Sep. 2017
• Neither have some conservatives disdained to use of the power or authority of the state to censor free speech.
  — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2017
• Some writers disdain the culture of the Internet; King is very much a product of it.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2021
• Entirely self-made, Edison disdained those who fell on hard times.
  — David Oshinsky, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2019
• That can work only with people who disdain the government and the activity of governing.
  — Peter Wehner, New York Times, 16 July 2016
• But seldom have critics so thoroughly disdained the events in Philadelphia as to call for a do-over.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2017
• The key thing about these scams is that in both cases the snobby cultural elites who Trump professes to disdain didn’t lose anything.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 18 Oct. 2018
• Trump’s unexpected victory caused much of the public to disdain the polls that had preceded it.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 19 Jan. 2018
• There are all shades of comments, from effusive praise to disdain and, of course, some garden variety trolling.
  — Donie O'Sullivan, CNN, 6 Aug. 2020
• Scott disdains, for the partiality of their perspectives, the pessimism about movies that was expressed by some of his precursors.
  — Leon Wieseltier, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2016
• In recent years, Charlemagne had largely disdained politics and gone back to music.
  — Glenn Garvin, miamiherald, 10 Dec. 2017
• This brief will delight the court’s reactionaries who favor religious supremacy and disdain gay rights.
  — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 8 Sep. 2017

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