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What (who) is Disdain - definition

FEELING OR ATTITUDE OF REGARDING SOMEONE OR SOMETHING AS INFERIOR, BASE, OR WORTHLESS
Comtempt; Disdainful; Can Bite Me; Contemptible; Disrespect; Contemptuous; Contemn; Contemns; Contemned; Contemning; Contempts; Contemptuousness; Contemner; Contemners; Disdain
  • A painting by [[Louis-Léopold Boilly]] (ca. 1797).<br>The woman has been interpreted as a [[prostitute]] (who is '''disdaining''' the inadequate coin proffered by the fashionable gentleman getting his shoes shined at left).
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  • Facial expression of contempt
  • This picture of Thomas Ward, arrested for stealing a £1 coin, can be seen as showing contempt.

disdain         
n. disdain for (to have the greatest disdain for smt.)
disdain         
(disdains, disdaining, disdained)
1.
If you feel disdain for someone or something, you dislike them because you think that they are inferior or unimportant.
Janet looked at him with disdain...
= contempt, scorn
N-UNCOUNT: oft N for n
2.
If you disdain someone or something, you regard them with disdain.
Jackie disdained the servants that her millions could buy.
VERB: V n
Disdain         
·vt The state of being despised; shame.
II. Disdain ·vi To be filled with scorn; to feel contemptuous anger; to be haughty.
III. Disdain ·vt That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion.
IV. Disdain ·vt To think unworthy; to deem unsuitable or unbecoming; as, to disdain to do a mean act.
V. Disdain ·vt A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn.
VI. Disdain ·vt 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.

Wikipedia

Contempt

Contempt is an attitude towards individuals, social groups and eventually ideologies, which involves disgust and anger while generally triggering maladaptive behaviours. However other authors define contempt as a negative emotion. Paul Ekman categorises contempt as the seventh basic emotion, along with anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise. Robert C. Solomon places contempt on the same continuum as resentment and anger, and he argues that the differences between the three are that resentment is anger directed towards a higher-status individual; anger is directed towards an equal-status individual; and contempt is anger directed towards a lower-status individual.

Examples of use of Disdain
1. They will reverse the years of disdain for marriage.
2. Official disdain for the office is becoming almost routine.
3. For Wallace, the issue is less about discomfort than disdain.
4. And treat them with the shrugging, blase disdain they deserve.
5. Authorities say his disdain for police was well known.