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

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

Others contend that Verlaine and Rimbaud would have disdained the establishment’s stamp of approval.

From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2020

Watching “The Happy Prince,” writer-director-star Rupert Everett’s account of the older Oscar Wilde, ungenerous viewers may think of someone who would have disdained the movie: the younger Oscar Wilde.

From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2018

Besides, he thought she would have disdained surrender, on those grounds.

From Cinderella Jane by Cooke, Marjorie Benton