| 单词 | disdain |
| 释义 | disdain (once / 426 pages) nv If you feel that something isn't worthy of your consideration, you may disdain it (or treat it with disdain). In Old French, deignier meant "to treat something as worthy." To disdain something, then, is to treat it with contempt: "Management at [the company] displayed a certain disdain for safety and appeared to regard safety-conscious workers as wimps in the organization." As a verb, disdain carries an air of self-righteousness not associated with similar words like despise, abhor, detest, loathe and scorn. So if you disdain something, you might reject it with a haughty scoff, "Ha!" WORD FAMILYdisdain: disdained, disdainful, disdaining, disdains+/disdainful: disdainfully, disdainfulness USAGE EXAMPLESPerhaps you read that and nodded, “Done! Next!” solely based on a general disdain for reality television. Salon(Jan 01, 2017) They experienced elite disdain for Trump as evidence he might be the one to turn it around. Wall Street Journal(Dec 30, 2016) Playing up his Southern backwoods roots, his military career and his disdain of the political establishment, he treated politics as a form of performance art. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1n lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike Syn|Hyper contempt, despite, scorn dislike a feeling of aversion or antipathy 2n a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient Syn|Hyper condescension, patronage depreciation, derogation, disparagement a communication that belittles somebody or something 3v look down on with disdain Syn|Hypo|Hyper contemn, despise, scorn look down on regard with contempt detest, hate dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards 4v reject with contempt Syn|Hypo|Hyper freeze off, pooh-pooh, reject, scorn, spurn, turn down decline, pass up, refuse, reject, turn down refuse to accept refuse, reject, turn away, turn downrefuse entrance or membership rebuff, repel, snub reject outright and bluntly decline, refuse show unwillingness towards |
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