Crossword-Solution: DISDAIN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Disdain | v. t. | A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn. |
| Disdain | v. t. | That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion. |
| Disdain | v. t. | The state of being despised; shame. |
| Disdain | v. t. | To think unworthy; to deem unsuitable or unbecoming; as, to disdain to do a mean act. |
| Disdain | v. t. | To reject as unworthy of one's self, or as not deserving one's notice; to look with scorn upon; to scorn, as base acts, character, etc. |
| Disdain | v. i. | To be filled with scorn; to feel contemptuous anger; to be haughty. |
We have 78 clues for the answer “DISDAIN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| That haughty feeling | 1 answer |
| Contemptuous conduct | 1 answer |
| Feeling of contempt | 1 answer |
| Contemptuousness | 1 answer |
| despisement | 2 answers |
| Regard with contempt | 3 answers |
| Look down one's nose at | 3 answers |
| Sneeze (at) | 6 answers |
| Thumb one's nose at | 6 answers |
| Jeering | 7 answers |
| ESTEEM (ant.) | 8 answers |
| contemn | 9 answers |
| Look down (on) | 10 answers |
| look down | 10 answers |
| Snobbery | 10 answers |
| Treat with contempt | 11 answers |
| Detest | 11 answers |
| Loathe | 13 answers |
| insouciance | 15 answers |
| Despise | 19 answers |
| name calling | 19 answers |
| superbity | 19 answers |
| hubris | 20 answers |
| Morgue | 20 answers |
| Abhor | 21 answers |
| Hauteur | 23 answers |
| egotism | 23 answers |
| forwardness | 24 answers |
| Spurn | 24 answers |
| complacency | 25 answers |
| Haughtiness | 25 answers |
| Lower oneself. | 26 answers |
| Deign | 27 answers |
| Egoism | 27 answers |
| Narcissism | 27 answers |
| detraction | 27 answers |
| high mightiness | 28 answers |
| Impertinence | 31 answers |
| Derision | 33 answers |
| Jeer | 34 answers |
| Contumely | 35 answers |
| despite | 38 answers |
| Overlook | 38 answers |
| Condescend | 40 answers |
| Defy | 41 answers |
| Sneer? | 41 answers |
| loftiness | 41 answers |
| Insolence | 44 answers |
| Effrontery | 45 answers |
| negligence | 45 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with DISDAIN (5)
Here Love his golden shafts imploies, here lights His constant Lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels; not in the bought smile Of Harlots, loveless, joyless, unindeard, Casual fruition, nor in Court Amours Mixt Dance, or wanton Mask, or Midnight Bal, Or Serenate, which the starv’d Lover sings To his proud fair, best quitted with disdain.
And the Muses’ quire will never disdain To visit this heaven-favored plain, Nor the Cyprian queen of the golden rein.
Those interviewed claim to adhere to a rigid ethic of loyalty to their employers and to disdain the vandalism and theft practiced by criminal crackers as beneath them and contrary to the hacker ethic; some quote Miyamoto Musashi's `Book of Five Rings', a classic of historical samurai doctrine, in support of these principles.
Thy Father, who is holy, wise, and pure, Suffers the hypocrite or atheous priest To tread his sacred courts, and minister About his altar, handling holy things, Praying or vowing, and voutsafed his voice 490 To Balaam reprobate, a prophet yet Inspired: disdain not such access to me.” To whom our Saviour, with unaltered brow:— “Thy coming hither, though I know thy scope, I bid not, or forbid.
His heart was heavy, and he said with a disdain which he did not feel that it wasn’t anything to spit like Tom Sawyer; but another boy said, “Sour grapes!” and he wandered away a dismantled hero.
Quotes with DISDAIN (3)
She loved him. But he didn’t know how to love. He could talk about love. He could see love and feel love. But he couldn’t give love. He could make love. But he couldn’t make promises. She had desperately wanted his promises. She wanted his heart, knew she couldn’t have it so she took what she could get. Temporary bliss. Passionate highs and lows. Withdrawal and manipulation. He only stayed long enough to take what he needed and keep moving. If he stopped moving, he would self…
The theological perspective of participation actually saves the appearances by exceeding them. It recognizes that materialism and spiritualism are false alternatives, since if there is only finite matter there is not even that, and that for phenomena really to be there they must be more than there. Hence, by appealing to an eternal source for bodies, their art, language, sexual and political union, one is not ethereally taking leave of their density. On the contrary, one is i…
Finer feeling, which we now wish to consider, is chiefly of two kinds: the feeling of the *sublime* and that of the *beautiful*. The stirring of each is pleasant, but in different ways. The sight of a mountain whose snow-covered peak rises above the clouds, the description of a raging storm, or Milton's portrayal of the infernal kingdom, arouse enjoyment but with horror; on the other hand, the sight of flower strewn meadows, valleys with winding brooks and covered with grazin…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 28 times in crossword archives (1992–2022).