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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
disdain .
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Examples
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He's Black, and openly proud of it, but still disdains liberal "identity politics," and the assumption that Black voters must inevitably vote Democrat.
Stewart J. Lawrence: Is There More to Herman Cain Than Meets the Eye? Stewart J. Lawrence 2011
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He's Black, and openly proud of it, but still disdains liberal "identity politics," and the assumption that Black voters must inevitably vote Democrat.
Stewart J. Lawrence: Is There More to Herman Cain Than Meets the Eye? Stewart J. Lawrence 2011
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He used it not to refer to gay people, but to a specificfilmmakingtool therehearsalprocess that he doesn't use and openly disdains.
Scott Mendelson: Thoughts On The Brett Ratner Mess: When Explicit Slurs Become Part Of Everyday Language And How To Deal With Their Casual And Out-of-Context Use Scott Mendelson 2011
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Reaganism disdains socialism, “sharing”, or concerns for the common good.
Hastert goes (back) to work for Turkey « Antiwar.com Blog 2009
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He's Black, and openly proud of it, but still disdains liberal "identity politics," and the assumption that Black voters must inevitably vote Democrat.
Stewart J. Lawrence: Is There More to Herman Cain Than Meets the Eye? Stewart J. Lawrence 2011
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He used it not to refer to gay people, but to a specificfilmmakingtool therehearsalprocess that he doesn't use and openly disdains.
Scott Mendelson: Thoughts On The Brett Ratner Mess: When Explicit Slurs Become Part Of Everyday Language And How To Deal With Their Casual And Out-of-Context Use Scott Mendelson 2011
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And that love is heightened every time he mocks and contemns, whenever he disdains to ridicule what we most cherish.
Ashley Rindsberg: On Hitchens Ashley Rindsberg 2011
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And that love is heightened every time he mocks and contemns, whenever he disdains to ridicule what we most cherish.
Ashley Rindsberg: On Hitchens Ashley Rindsberg 2011
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When I point out that he has done absolutely nothing to earn his wealth, and it is pure chance that separates him from the "chavs" he disdains, he insists he has earned his money.
Johann Hari: Promoting Anorexia: An Interview With Kenneth Tong. This Was No Hoax Johann Hari 2011
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He's Black, and openly proud of it, but still disdains liberal "identity politics," and the assumption that Black voters must inevitably vote Democrat.
Stewart J. Lawrence: Is There More to Herman Cain Than Meets the Eye? Stewart J. Lawrence 2011
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