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A feeling that someone or something is beneath consideration or respect.

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disdain

The narrator treats fashionable gossip with disdain.
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At a fictional architecture seminar, a presenter showed disdain for a modest housing proposal, dismissing it as beneath serious consideration before reading its details.
From Listening Beneath the Criticism.
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