disdain
verb (used with object)
to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn.
have disdained
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present perfectof disdain.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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And not just your Folgers-drinking grandparents but venture capitalists, third-wave coffee roasters and aficionados who formerly might have disdained it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
Some Midwest writers have disdained the region that nourished them.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022
But while elite Southerners may actually have disdained small-fry traders, they didn’t have the same issue with the wealthy threesome of Franklin, Armfield, and Ballard.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2021
Years before, I would have disdained these doughnuts: full of sugar, premade months before in a factory.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 8, 2019
A month ago he would have disdained the hope that now was so dear to him.
From Moods by Louisa May Alcott
