0 the feeling of not liking someone or something and thinking that they do not deserve your interest or respect: --
1 to feel disdain for someone or something: --
2 dislike of someone or something that you feel does not deserve your interest or respect: --
Descriptions of all these spontaneous, dynamic, frequently female-centered, and often disdained expressive practices of common folk played a significant role in the invention of traditions and the construction of nationalities.
One dean openly disdained formal ethics training.
The department generally disdained subletting.
They also disdained class-and-capital mindedness.
Preachers have reputedly been bitten hundreds of times but survive to continue handling cottonmouths and rattlesnakes, disdaining medical attention in the belief that faith is the only cure.
To make matters worse, many of the able-bodied beggars disdained humility or deference in their predicament, relying on intimidation rather than supplication to obtain their goals.
He believed in eclecticism and open essayistic writing, disdaining jargon.
When one is young, one admires vibrant emotion and disdains cold calculation.
