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disdain

noun

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

The narrator treats fashionable gossip with disdain.

Dictionary practice example.

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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