disdain

In a sentence

Six example sentences with disdain, each labelled with its topic.

• The narrator's disdain for country neighbors leaks through every description of their furniture, their meals, and their conversation.

  Literature

• Older members of the orchestra spoke with open disdain of amplification, as though a microphone insulted the hall itself.

  Music

• Ancient Cynics made a performance of their disdain for wealth, sleeping in public and refusing every comfortable invitation.

  Philosophy

• The veteran's disdain for load management was obvious, since he had played eighty games a season for a decade.

  Basketball

• The painter's disdain for galleries led her to show work only in a friend's garage for twenty years.

  Art

• His disdain for shortcuts means every stock in the kitchen simmers for eight hours from real bones.

  Cooking

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains disdain. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More GMAT words

• ardent
• permeate
• agonize
• fell
• subpoena
• adamant
• brazen
• credence
• frivolous
• bolster
• abstain
• ingrained