Word Definition

Disdain

  1. To be filled with scorn; to feel contemptuous anger; to be haughty.
  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.
  3. That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion.
  4. A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn.
  5. To think unworthy; to deem unsuitable or unbecoming; as, to disdain to do a mean act.
  6. The state of being despised; shame.

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