I. noun
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Communist disdain for the environment made matters worse.
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His father noticed them too but regarded them with disdain .
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Now the carbon-dioxide snow gleamed white beneath the icy disdain of the stars.
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Predictably, the international media circus, with its Olympian disdain for the parochial, has long since moved on.
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The most obvious: His expressed concern for the environment and his disdain for technology.
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The Shah had sometimes shown disdain for many such people.
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They remained aloof from the front row out of disdain and from the back row out of a sense of responsibility.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He disdains New York and the art that is produced there.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Along with his peers on the Board, Stark disdained them.
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But such simple fare he knew full well would be disdained.
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Even the casual Aranyos did not disdain to make the sign.
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From boyhood he disdained an easy life.
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I disdained to consult a medical dictionary, however.
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I could see her proudly carrying on her head an amphora to a well and disdaining all admirers.
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In fact, Roy disdains the cowardice of anyone who plays the easier shot.
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Throughout the Mekong delta, local officials who disdained Tu Duc nevertheless quit the provincial administration rather than submit to alien rule.