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Look up: disdain

  1. disdain
    look on with contempt 
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  2. Disdain
    Dis·dain' noun [ Middle English desdain , disdein , Old French desdein , desdaing , French dédain , from the verb. See Disdain , transitive verb ] 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.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/D/81

  3. Disdain
    Dis·dain' transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disdained ; present participle & verbal noun Disdaining .] [ Middle English disdainen , desdainen , Old French desdeigner , desdaigner , French dédaigner ; des- (L. dis- ) + daigner to deign, from Latin dignari t ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/D/81

  4. Disdain
    Dis·dain' intransitive verb 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).
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/D/81

  5. Disdain
    `Disdain` (or `disdainment` or `disdainful`) is a feeling of contempt or scorn. `Disdain` may also refer to: * `So Disdained` 1928 novel by Nevil Shute
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disdain

  6. Disdain
    • (v. i.) To be filled with scorn; to feel contemptuous anger; to be haughty. • (v. t.) A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn. • (v. t.) To think unworthy; to deem unsuitable or unbecoming; as, to disdain to do a mean act. • (v. t.) That which is worthy to be disdained or...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning


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Just before 11.00am on 8th November 1987 a Provisional IRA bomb exploded without warning as people gathered at the war memorial in Enniskillen for the annual Remembrance Day service. Eleven people were killed and 63 injured, nine of them seriously, when the three-story gable wall of St Michael's Reading Rooms crashed down burying people in several feet of rubble. The Provisional IRA admitted responsibility the following day. read more

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