- In
colloquial usage,
contempt usually refers to
either the act of despising, or
having a
general lack of
respect for something. This set of
emotions generally...
- To be
sardonic is to be
disdainfully or
cynically humorous, or
scornfully mocking. A form of wit or humour,
being sardonic often involves expressing an...
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normal and
healthy desires, wishes, and
needs with
something ugly and
disdainful".
Though Kafka never married, he held
marriage and
children in high esteem...
-
being the case of
certain Swiss rapiers, but
flamberge quickly became a
disdainful term in
France to
refer to
flamboyant swords.This
comes from the French...
- When
Alexander asked Diogenes what he
could do for him, the
philosopher disdainfully asked Alexander to
stand a
little to the side, as he was
blocking the...
-
superiority complex typically come
across as supercilious, haughty, and
disdainful toward others. They may
treat others in an imperious, overbearing, and...
- tax bill Hamburger, Tom; Gold,
Matea (April 13, 2014). "Google, once
disdainful of lobbying, now a
master of
Washington influence". The
Washington Post...
- deathbed,
described him as
worthy of
becoming emperor (capax imperii), but "
disdainful" of
supreme power.
Lepidus has been ****umed to be the son of
Marcus Aemilius...
- one's
lower eyelid and
saying mon œil, or "my eye", is an
expression of
disdainful,
dismissive disbelief.
Similar variations of the
gesture exist in other...
- years—was so
light as to
render the
trial a mockery. The Queen,
increasingly disdainful of the
Marlboroughs and her ministry,
finally took the
opportunity to...
