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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Grandfather was deeply indifferent to the future and disdainful of the successes of his forgotten sons.
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He surfed big conditions with disdainful ease, a slightly meretricious casualness.
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Here was a hero with icy eyes and a disdainful mouth - typically male!
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In the morning, I paid my disdainful landlady for the use of my room for the rest of the day.
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One eyebrow is nearly obscured by the angle of her beret; the other is raised, bemused and disdainful .
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Scholars who know better are cowed, indifferent or, sotto voce, disdainful .
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Such was the wondrous power of this disdainful young man.
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The financial world has been disdainful of his economic performance partly because it has concentrated on the interests of the poor.