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DISDAIN
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Traducere în limba română
disdain I. verb tranzitiv
1. a dispreţui, a desconsidera.
2. (cu infinitive) a nu binevoi să, a nu catadicsi să, a considera nedemn să, a nu conveni să.
disdain II. substantiv
dispreţ, desconsiderare, depreciere.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
The men in the fort disdained the newcomers and enjoyed seeing them come to grief.
(White Fang, de Jack London)
She might have disdained him in all the dignity of angry virtue, in the grounds of Sotherton, or the theatre at Mansfield Park; but he approached her now with rights that demanded different treatment.
(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)
Mrs. Wilson rejected the compliment by raising her eyebrow in disdain.
(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)