Disdain: alternatives and connections

To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

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To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

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To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.

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To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.

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To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

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To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

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To empty.

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Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance.

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To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.

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To sob with convulsions.

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To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

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The act of lessening, or seeking to lessen, price, value, or reputation.

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The act of derogating, partly repealing, or lessening in value; disparagement; detraction; depreciation; -- followed by of, from, or to.

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To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.

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To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish.

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Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation.

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To have a great aversion to, with a strong desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; to dislike intensely; to de…

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To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.

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Malice; malignity; spite; malicious anger; contemptuous hate.

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Malice; malignity; spite; malicious anger; contemptuous hate.

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Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.

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Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.

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One who sneers.

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One who sneers.

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One who spurns.

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One who spurns.

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The act of condescending; voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior; courtesy toward inferiors.

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To view or treat with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn.

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The act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteemed mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.

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To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of.

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Malice; malignity; spite; malicious anger; contemptuous hate.

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Special countenance or support; favor, encouragement, or aid, afforded to a person or a work; as, the patronage of letters; patronage given to an aut…

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To make light of; to treat with derision or contempt, as if by saying pooh! pooh!

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To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

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Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.

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To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.

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