disdaining
present participle ofdisdain
disdain
verb[T]
formaluk/dɪsˈdeɪn/us/dɪsˈdeɪn/tofeeldisdain for someone or something:
Theoldermusiciansdisdain the new, rock-influencedmusic.
disdain to dosomething
torefuseto do something because youfeelyou are tooimportantto do it
Not liking
- abhor
- abide
- abominate
- anti-American
- anti-British
- civil
- cup
- cut
- deplore
- despise
- detest
- disdain
- disdainful
- mind
- non-fan
- not besomeone'scup of teaidiom
- not go much onsomethingidiom
- not have a civil word to say aboutsomeoneidiom
- not know whatsomeonesees insomeone/somethingidiom
- stand
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Showing arrogance and conceit
Examplesofdisdaining
disdaining
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Whiledisdainingthe effects of commercial civilization, he still believed that an enhanced appreciation of the past could help create a better future.
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He believed in eclecticism and open essayistic writing,disdainingjargon.
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Preachers have reputedly been bitten hundreds of times but survive to continue handling cottonmouths and rattlesnakes,disdainingmedical attention in the belief that faith is the only cure.
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Icarus, we are told,disdainingparental admonition and advice, flew too high so that his wings were melted by the sun.
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He travelled separately in a hired vessel,disdainingto share the discomforts of the warship carrying his troops.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Oftendisdainingestablished and chain restaurants, she gravitated to obscure and new eateries.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Sandry describes her parents as a cheerful but flighty young couple,disdainingthe duties of their nobility to travel the world.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Disdainingevasive tactics when under the heaviest fire, he always went straight to his objectives.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He is also appreciated for notdisdainingsmaller roles and for not assuming a divo attitude.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He ran a busy, though, according to his memoirs, unconventional, practice, not keeping ledgers or books anddisdainingkeeping financial records.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This they think secures them from wounds and death; and they tell stories of persons who have lost their lives from neglecting ordisdainingthis ceremony.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Maria cultivated the arts with great enthusiasm, notdisdainingeven needlework.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.If the women disobeys or neglect her duties as a wife, by law the husband has the right to use physical means including violence to correct herdisdainingacts.
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