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
Ms. Begg said in an interview on Monday that her father had disdained television dramas about the police because they were unrealistic about police work — all except one, she said: “Columbo.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2014
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
Lance's wife, who had refused to speak to her, who had disdained to touch her outstretched hand—Lance's wife coming to speak to her.
From A Mad Love by Charlotte M. Brame
