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• n  lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
• n  a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient
• v  look down on with disdain
• v  reject with contempt

• Karen's boundless ambition got her quickly up the ladder and her disdain for authority brought her down as quickly.
• They held the rival team in utter disdain but paid the price when they suffered a shock defeat.
• Feted abroad, his countrymen had only disdain for his work and beliefs.

• contempt
• scorn
• despite
• condescension
• patronage
• contemn
• despise
• reject
• spurn
• freeze off
• pooh-pooh
• turn down

News & Articles

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• Blocking Medicaid expansion hurts vulnerable populations
  Across the South, state leaders are rejecting Medicaid expansion as part of their overall disdain for the Affordable Care Act.
  June 16, 2013 - The Post and Courier
• 2013 U.S. Open: Is Merion unfair?
  I would describe the whole golf course as manipulated,Johnson said. "It just enhances my disdain for the USGA and how it manipulates golf courses. At the most basic level, Johnson is right. The USGA did manipulate Merion -- and manipulates every U.S. Open course.
  June 15, 2013 - Philly.com
• FBI files show disdain for former Wash. Gov. Albert Rosellini
  Over his decades in public life, former Gov. Albert Rosellini helped bring Washington into the modern era, but newly released FBI files showed the agency did little to hide their disdain for the Democrat.
  June 13, 2013 - KOMO Seattle

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Bizjournals.com
  What we have ...... seen in these last months is the same partisan spectacle that only hardens the disdain many Americans have toward their own government,Obama said in an address to both houses of Congress.
• Mangosuthu Buthelezi in Independent Online
  This is a further shift by the Bush administration into Nixonian stonewalling and more evidence of their disdain for our system of checks and balances. ...... Increasingly, the president and vice president feel they are above the law. In America no... Patrick Leahy http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Leahy&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFcZSJmJ7wQO0GBByzBnDCGtMs8VA FOXNews http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,287113,00.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGs4zqYJ6Ewvi0O0omPMsqvYzgEmQ Jun 28, 2007 28313 37245 disdainfully Renaming must not be conducted in a manner befitting Mao's Cultural Revolution, in which names and events that do not fit into the ruling party's liberation narrative are disdainfully [r]ejected," Buthelezi said. "While I know that the...