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verb (used with object)
1.
to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn.
2.
to think unworthy of notice, response, etc.; consider beneath oneself: to disdain replying to an insult.
noun
3.
a feeling of contempt for anything regarded as unworthy; haughty contempt; scorn.
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Disdaining
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So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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disdain
late 13c., from O.Fr. desdeignier, from des- "do the opposite of" + deignier "treat as worthy" (see deign). Related: Disdained; disdainful; disdainfully; disdaining.
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