disdain
verb (used with object)
to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn.
had disdained
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past perfectof disdain.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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One can only wonder at the malevolent pleasure he would have felt at his Cubist masterworks ending up at the Met and not at the Tate or MoMA, which he had disdained for decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
But his ambition to be the biggest operator was so intense that he soon relied on the junk bonds he had disdained, and he went deeply into personal debt.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 17, 2017
The joke is on Victor: He learns the value of the kind of emotionally uplifting, optimistic story he had disdained for so long.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2015
After the case had been lost, the attorney general pretended that the Crown had disdained to match the defence "bishop for bishop and don for don", but this was a lie.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 22, 2010
Debarred from much by his state of health, he had disdained what was within his reach.
From A Noble Name or D?nninghausen by Claire Von Gl?mer
