disdain's Usage Examples:

disdainful look if you like, but the four is the card to play.

Is is just me or do these wankers really believe everybody will childishly believe their lies and misinformation without question?He picked up a magazine to show his disdain for our childishness.

disdainful manner, " Come, my dear, let us leave these vulgar creatures.

Effie bubbled away to anyone who'd listen while Claire stood looking over the gathering with undisguised disdain.

There is not in his history a trace of that rather gross adulation in which even Virgil does not disdain to indulge.

Lo, lo, the wretched wight, Who God disdaining, His mischief made his might, His guard his gaining.

Apt to minimize difficulties, to search for the common ground of unity in opponents, he turned aside, with a disdain which superficial critics often mistook for indifference, from the base, the violent and the common.

Nevertheless, disdaining to recognize the enmity of a mere monk, he tried, but in vain, conciliatory measures.

The story of her love for the disdainful Phaon, and her leap into the sea from the Leucadian promontory, together with that of her flight from Mytilene to Sicily, has no confirmation; we are not even told whether she died of the leap or not.

The Left or Constitutionals, known afterwards as the Feuillants, among whom Barnave and Charles and Alexander Lameth were conspicuous, also wished to preserve monarchy but disdained English precedent.

The Bundelas - the race who gave the name to the country - still maintain their dignity as chieftains, by disdaining to cultivate the soil, although by no means conspicuous for lofty sentiments of honour or morality.

He disdained the pope's efforts to make peace with England, except on terms of absolute independence for his country.

Synonyms:

scorn, detest, contemn, despise, look down on, hate,

Antonyms:

pull, attract, please, admire, love,