disdain
verb (used with object)
to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn.
disdained
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past participleof disdain.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof disdain.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
disdainverb (used with object)to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn.
Example Sentences
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Air conditioning, long disdained in France, is "no longer taboo at all", Jehanno said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
And though life off the mountain didn’t always go smoothly, he disdained regret.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
In a December 1904 message to Congress, Roosevelt disdained any “unmanly” inclination to a “peace of tyrannous terror, the peace of craven weakness, the peace of injustice.”
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025
Netflix and its ilk once disdained ads as well as sports and other live-action programming; now they’re buying with both hands because such programming synergizes particularly well with advertising.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
But mainstream figures in science and the military disdained RW as ineffective, impractical, and immoral.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
