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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

“Now it seems that Hawking and Unruh were right!” said Max Tegmark, a cosmologist at M.I.T., noting that some physicists had wondered whether gravity obeyed the dice-playing quantum principles that Einstein had disdained.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 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

Like the rest of them, Félicie had disdained, despised, disparaged the Comédie-Française.

From A Mummer's Tale by Roche, Charles E.