- 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...
- 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...
- tax bill Hamburger, Tom; Gold,
Matea (April 13, 2014). "Google, once
disdainful of lobbying, now a
master of
Washington influence". The
Washington Post...
- 'Some
people see me as a Lolita, but I don't like that,'
Romina said
disdainfully. 'I don't see
myself as that at all.' Broadley, Wes. "Bradley Broadley"...
-
Nosal and two
other Harvard athletes,
sympathetic to
Langer and Yale and
disdainful of the
absurdity of the NCAA rule,
protested at the 1970 NCAA
Indoor Track...
- 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...
- set. Victoria, Lady
Henry Wotton – Lord Henry's wife, whom he
treats disdainfully; she
later divorces him.
Throughout the novel,
Wilde delves into the...
-
ambiguity characterized his
opinions of
Joseph Stalin: in 1940 he
wrote disdainfully of the "Tyrant Stalin", but when
Stalin died in 1953, Du Bois
wrote a...
- Saarland, and the
Bavarian Palatinate.
Bismarck flatly refused what he
disdainfully termed France's
politique des
pourboires ("tipping policy"). He then...
- that
myths have no
place in philosophy.: 87
Cicero is also
generally disdainful of myth, but, like Varro, he is
emphatic in his
support for the state...
