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 disdain [dɪs'den]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 蔑视

vt. 蔑视, 鄙弃


  1. He disdained that man for snobbishness and was unwilling to talk to him.
    他鄙视那个势利小人,不愿和他说话。
  2. I have nothing but disdain for such a person.
    对这样一个人,我只有鄙视。
  3. Affecting an attitude of disdain or conceit; haughty and supercilious.
    傲慢的摆出轻蔑或自满的样子的;高傲且盛气凌人的


disdain
[ noun ]
  1. lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike

  2. <noun.feeling>
    he was held in contempt
    the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary
  3. a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient

  4. <noun.communication>
[ verb ]
  1. look down on with disdain

  2. <verb.emotion> contemn despise scorn
    He despises the people he has to work for
    The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately
  3. reject with contempt

  4. <verb.communication>
    freeze off pooh-pooh reject scorn spurn turn down
    She spurned his advances


Disdain \Dis*dain"\, v. i.
To be filled with scorn; to feel contemptuous anger; to be
haughty.

And when the chief priests and scribes saw the marvels
that he did . . . they disdained. --Genevan
Testament
(Matt. xxi.
15).


Disdain \Dis*dain"\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disdained};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Disdaining}.] [OE. disdainen, desdainen, OF.
desdeigner, desdaigner, F. d['e]daigner; des- (L. dis-) +
daigner to deign, fr. L. dignari to deem worthy. See
{Deign}.]
1. To think unworthy; to deem unsuitable or unbecoming; as,
to disdain to do a mean act.

Disdaining . . . that any should bear the armor of
the best knight living. --Sir P.
Sidney.

2. 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.

When the Philistine . . . saw David, he disdained
him; for he was but a youth. --1 Sam. xvii.
42.

'T is great, 't is manly to disdain disguise.
--Young.

Syn: To contemn; despise; scorn. See {Contemn}.


Disdain \Dis*dain"\ (?; 277), n. [OE. desdain, disdein, OF.
desdein, desdaing, F. d['e]dain, fr. the verb. See {Disdain},
v. t.]
1. A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything
as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn.

How my soul is moved with just disdain! --Pope.

Note: Often implying an idea of haughtiness.

Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes.
--Shak.

2. That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with
contempt and aversion. [Obs.]

Most loathsome, filthy, foul, and full of vile
disdain. --Spenser.

3. The state of being despised; shame. [Obs.] --Shak.

Syn: Haughtiness; scorn; contempt; arrogance; pride. See
{Haughtiness}.

  1. It might look at moments like Euro-crash - bodies slamming to the floor; danger the essential in every step - but its emotional force and wild logic, its skilled disdain for hazard, were hugely effective.
  2. Pickering said Iraq repeatedly had lied about its intentions and demonstrated its "scorn" for the international community and disdain for international law.
  3. Before his dinner audience of leading U.S. architects, members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, diplomats and Hollywood celebrities Thursday night, Charles will have a new opportunity to express his disdain for modern architecture.
  4. Although a member of the Communist Party, Mr. Goncharov, who tends to keep most conversation on a serious footing, doesn't hide his disdain for the uncaring system built up over 72 years of communist rule.
  5. The company's reputation was forged by William La Porte, chairman until 1981, who was known both for holding the investment community in disdain and for his stern fiscal management.
  6. Avril was brought to power in a September 1988 revolt by soldiers who professed disdain for political killings and other abuses by the previous military ruler, Lt.
  7. "Bush showed a real disdain, disregard for our country," Bentsen said.
  8. Salisbury treated the process with patrician disdain: 'No more tobacconists I entreat you,' he wrote to his colleague the Duke of Devonshire after a dodgy baronetcy raised eyebrows. The trafficking was hidden from public view.
  9. Woodward said Stewart turned out to have "real intellectual disdain" for former Chief Justice Warren Burger and former Attorney General John Mitchell, both appointees of President Richard Nixon.
  10. He also repeated his long-held abhorrence of materialism, disdain for Western mass culture and belief that a democratic society can exist under a powerful leader.
  11. The war was a bitter lesson in the strength of modern Soviet-backed forces, and it left these officers with an attitude of disdain for Congress and the press.
  12. Ford and its foes both rely on pools of expert witnesses, who have a studied disdain for each other's views.
  13. Bentsen said Bush had shown "real disdain, disregard for our country" by tapping the Indiana senator to join his ticket.
  14. With their love for the theoretical, disdain for the practical, and enthusiasm for the complicated, management professors often seem removed from the prosaic world of business.
  15. He even emphasises, interestingly, the note of disdain in the role.
  16. He is part of a subculture here which looks on the revolution with disdain.
  17. Many of the Spadafora allies disdain the colonel, but they think he will make a good witness someday.
  18. In February, conservatives in the party and the army revived Lei Feng as a role model, even though he is widely regarded with disdain by young people.
  19. While kebab restaurants are common and popular, many native Istanbulus look upon them as a provincial intrusion from the Arab and Kurdish parts of Turkey, to be treated with the sort of disdain with which Mrs Beeton would eye a chicken nugget.
  20. Harvard and Yale have eyed each other with haughty disdain for nearly 300 years, since Yale was founded in 1701 by a group of clergy worried about religious backsliding at the more liberal Harvard, the oldest college in America.
  21. Shrugging off a long-held disdain of publicity, Mr. DeNunzio hired a public relations firm.
  22. More than two dozen young men wore borrowed miniskirts to school Friday to show their disdain for the code.
  23. The initial reaction from Republicans was disdain.
  24. Despite the danger, the newspaper, owned by the Cano family, has shown a disdain for the drug barons.
  25. The market absolutely holds in disdain any company with uncertainty." One reason for the bargain: earnings in fiscal 1990 (ended in April) declined to $1.13 a share, from $1.28 a share the year before.
  26. He was wrong. She treated this with icy disdain.
  27. Certainly not by management diktat or by ministerial disdain. In our industrial strategy document, Manufacturing Matters, to be launched next week, we call for the Department of Trade and Industry to establish a manufacturing forum to start the dialogue.
  28. "I disdain the idea that AIDS patients are becoming the lepers of the 20th Century," Mr. Oberly said.
  29. An impish 44-year-old who refers to his top fiscal aide as "cheap financial officer," the producer operates with slimmed-down, nonunion crews, sophisticated cost-watching computers and an open disdain for Hollywood's more glamorous trappings.
  30. Mr. Piazzolla is a pretty tough character, filled with disdain for people who come to his concerts expecting to rock out, and he also despises reactionary Argentines who insist that tango never change.
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