- 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...
- tax bill Hamburger, Tom; Gold,
Matea (April 13, 2014). "Google, once
disdainful of lobbying, now a
master of
Washington influence". The
Washington Post...
- 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...
-
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...
- of
British descent. Roto Peru,
Bolivia Chilean people Used to
refer disdainfully. The term roto ("tattered") was
first applied to
Spanish conquerors in...
-
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...
- the
Democrats and the New Deal of
Franklin D. Roosevelt, was
resolutely disdainful of the
British and French, and
greatly enthusiastic for
Chiang Kai-shek...
-
complained that
Canadian education promoted foreign values that were
disdainful of the
traditional structure and
culture of
Inuit society. In the 1950s...
- Walt
Whitman enthusiastically endorsed the war in 1846 and
showed his
disdainful attitude toward Mexico and
boosterism for
Manifest Destiny: "What has...
