disdain
/dɪsˈdeɪn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.33 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The cat viewed the cheap supermarket catfood with disdain and stalked away."
- "He that with ſhepheards and a litle ſpoyle, Durſt in diſdaine of wrong and tyrannie, Defend his freedome gainſt a Monarchie: What will he doe ſupported by a king?"
- "Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes."
- "Everything that could go right for England did although they never felt lucky and they chuckled at Kane’s third that ricocheted off his heel while he was looking the other way. Somewhere in the Moscow outskirts one could only guess at the grand disdain Cristiano Ronaldo will have felt at being supplanted as the tournament’s top scorer in that manner."
- "Most loathsom, filthy, foul, and full of vile Disdain."
- "The leaves and fruit maintain'd with beauty's sun ; Exempt from envy , but not from disdain"
Etymology
From Middle English disdeynen, from Old French desdeignier (modern French dédaigner).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: disdeynen, desdeignier