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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Speaking to Slate, Sand insisted he disdained the party system despite the fact that he not only was a two-time statewide elected official as a Democrat but had worked on Democratic campaigns in his youth.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026
These same dons disdained Britain’s provincial universities—known pejoratively as Redbrick—as well as academics in the U.S., whom they scorned for going about their business with “woefully unnecessary seriousness.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Air conditioning, long disdained in France, is "no longer taboo at all", Jehanno said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
In Sondheim’s body of work, Okrent searches for the autobiographical resonances that Sondheim himself mostly disdained.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
Does he remember this long-ago gesture, how he consoled me when Hamlet disdained my gift?
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
