How to Use disdain in a Sentence

disdain

1 of 2 noun

• I have a healthy disdain for companies that mistreat their workers.
• He regarded their proposal with disdain.
• But, again, why the wave of disdain in the first place?
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Sep. 2022
• And the disdain for and ridicule of Utah from around the country lives on, too.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Nov. 2022
• A president with open disdain for the courts and the press.
  — Jonathan W. White, Smithsonian, 17 Mar. 2017
• The bitterness and the disdain are gone from his voice.
  — Robert King, Indianapolis Star, 9 Feb. 2018
• But the best Krakauer also has a touch of disdain for the subject.
  — Joseph Bien-Kahn, Outside Online, 30 Mar. 2018
• The French rider waved his left arm in disdain and swerved back and forth across the road.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 26 July 2019
• To some, Musk’s apparent disdain for the city feels like salt in the wound.
  — Trisha Thadani, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
• The fact the question is no longer being met with disdain is progress.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2022
• The son of the rock legend took to Twitter to express his disdain.
  — Marisa Whitaker, SPIN, 2 June 2022
• Like many of Reed's columns over the years, his post on Hall was met with disdain.
  — Hayes Gardner, The Courier-Journal, 5 Feb. 2022
• Few items of clothing have been talked about over the last two decades with more disdain than the low-rise jean.
  — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 10 Sep. 2021
• The voice in press conferences is not an act of disdain for the media.
  — The Enquirer, 7 Apr. 2022
• Cuevas plays Àlex, a gym bunny out for a good time on the apps — a life the series in no way disdains.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
• The populist idea is disdain for restraint, even at the expense of virtue.
  — Bret Stephens New York Times, Star Tribune, 18 Aug. 2020
• Her disdain is crystal-clear—even when it's buried in synths.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 30 Nov. 2018
• Brown was open with his disdain for the owner's comments.
  — Matt Young, Houston Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2018
• The 74-year-old rock star has been vocal about his disdain for the president.
  — Rasha Ali, USA TODAY, 5 July 2020
• Murray expressed some disdain with his doubters on the show.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 18 Nov. 2020
• Labrador hasn’t been shy about his disdain for ranked choice voting.
  — Matt Vasilogambros, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2023
• The right’s disdain for both sides-ism continued through the Obama era.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2017
• His disdain for the cold eliminates a lot of those cities anyway.
  — Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 8 June 2018
• The man who pulled him down is hovering nearby, a look of disdain on his face.
  — New York Times, 21 Sep. 2021
• Anyone from the streets to the schoolyard can understand the disdain for that figure.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2023
• In our house, there was great disdain for wealth and arrogance.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2020
• And Biden isn't Clinton, dragged down by distrust and disdain.
  — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 1 Nov. 2020
• The disdain is all gone, and in its place is a kind of honoring that verges on reverence.
  — Daphne Merkin, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
• In 2019, then-President Trump made his disdain for digital assets clear.
  — Sam Lyman, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• Other actors picked up Brando’s mannerisms: the twitchy immediacy, the cavalier way with dialogue, an obeisance to the Method, disdain for the press.
  — Ty Burr, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024

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disdain

2 of 2 verb

• They disdained him for being weak.
• She disdained to answer their questions.
• While most birds peck at food right side up, the nuthatch disdains proper manners.
  — Jerry Shnay, Daily Southtown, 11 June 2018
• The Bible, in its reader-unfriendly way, disdains to tell us.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2014
• For botanist and writer Sandra Knapp, the approach was closer to disdain.
  — Dominique Browning, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
• Trump is often mocked as someone who likes to return to his own bed at night, who disdains long trips abroad.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 11 May 2018
• The everyday life of the soul, the things that the big picture of history usually omits, or disdains.
  — Rachel Donadio, New York Times, 20 May 2016
• Trump and Bolton both appear to disdain alliances and many forms of diplomacy.
  — Elizabeth Saunders, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2018
• Some writers disdain the culture of the Internet; King is very much a product of it.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2021
• Please do not read this in any way to disdain the people commemorating the loss of Pearl Grover.
  — cleveland, 26 Feb. 2022
• In the long run, there’s less safety for everyone when the public and the police distrust and disdain each other.
  — Caille Millner, SFChronicle.com, 24 Jan. 2020
• Rudy Giuliani in 2008 disdained to campaign in the two states and put all his chips on Florida—and promptly lost his shirt.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
• George Allen, the Redskins’ coach of the 1970s, disdained young players and happily dealt away many of his picks for veterans.
  — New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
• Lenin and Stalin disdained their softness: the end always justified the means.
  — Time, 24 Aug. 2023
• Schemes were hatched in the repulsive latrines, where guards disdained to enter.
  — New York Times, 21 Sep. 2019
• The cards served the dual purpose of helping young pupils learn their letters — and disdain religion.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2022
• Sure, many people openly disdained Springer and his ilk, but the ratings didn't lie: People were watching.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
• Lugo, who is also 6-4 but with short hair, disdains Gsellman’s long locks.
  — James Wagner, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2016
• Adlon disdains cutesiness and avoids almost all of the genre’s familiar clichés.
  — Willa Paskin, Slate Magazine, 13 Sep. 2017
• There have been many other Ganny letters over the years, full of love, sometimes disdain, and always protective to the core.
  — Southern Living, 24 Oct. 2017
• Ms. Le Pen, the leader of the National Front party, has long disdained the euro as a threat to prosperity.
  — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2017
• Entirely self-made, Edison disdained those who fell on hard times.
  — David Oshinsky, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2019
• The titles leave little doubt about how much disdain the authors have for the schools meant to prepare future leaders in business.
  — George Siedel, The Conversation, 27 June 2022
• The key thing about these scams is that in both cases the snobby cultural elites who Trump professes to disdain didn’t lose anything.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 18 Oct. 2018
• Gunmakers were no longer avoiding the gun that many had once regarded as the kind of weapon that society would disdain.
  — Todd C. Frankel, Shawn Boburg, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker and Alex Horton, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
• In my grandparents’ neighborhood, girls wear wigs and long black skirts, but Nagyi disdains them for their showiness.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2018
• Spend hours learning a recipe your family will disdain.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Feb. 2021
• But seldom have critics so thoroughly disdained the events in Philadelphia as to call for a do-over.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2017
• There are all shades of comments, from effusive praise to disdain and, of course, some garden variety trolling.
  — Donie O'Sullivan, CNN, 6 Aug. 2020
• Both elections showed that establishment leaders had disdained the wishes and concerns of their voters—at their peril.
  — Steve Forbes, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024