(a.) Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty.
Example Sentences:
(1) People praying, voicing their views and heart, were met with disdain and a level of force exceeding what was needed.
(2) Fred had to be substituted to shield him from the crowd’s disdain.
(3) It may have been like punk never ‘appened, but you caught a whiff of the movement’s scorched earth puritanism in the mocking disdain with which Smash Hits addressed rock-star hedonism.
(4) TV's Jeremy Paxman didn't even bother hiding his disdain for the introduction of weather reports to Newsnight – "It's April.
(5) It shows that we still have some way to go to end bigoted banter.” The exchange was also met with disdain on Twitter.
(6) He has frequently tested the patience of Japan's conservative sumo authorities with his disdain for the rules of engagement in the ring and his bad behaviour off it.
(7) His comic adventures are too many to relate, but it may be said that they culminate in a café of 'singing waiters' where, after a wealth of comic 'business' with the tray, he shows his disdain for articulate speech by singing a vividly explicit song in gibberish.
(8) Immigration has been used as a 21st-century incomes policy, mixing a liberal sense of free for all with a free-market disdain for clear and effective rules.
(9) Riva, the oldest nominee ever for best actress category, has a very Gallic disdain for such public adulation.
(10) "Historians will pore over his many speeches to black audiences," wrote Ta-Nahisi Coates at The Atlantic, and "they will see a president who sought to hold black people accountable for their communities, but was disdainful of those who looked at him and sought the same".
(11) Born in July 1954, Christopher Murray Paul-Huhne (his surname until he went to Oxford) has always been something of a Marmite politician, attracting both loyalty and affection, as well as brickbats and disdain.
(12) Gil Eliyahu, who stopped working for Binyamin and Sara Netanyahu two and a half years ago, is threatening to sue the couple, claiming he was treated with "humiliating" disdain.
(13) It was one of at least half a dozen such unionist experiments, with a variety of partners, which foundered on the rocks of the would-be partners' infirmity of purpose, fear, suspicion and disdain of this bizarre, arrogant, impetuous upstart.
(14) Safronkov reserved his fiercest disdain for the UK envoy, Matthew Rycroft, who had said that UK scientists had determined that sarin had been used in the Khan Sheikhun attack and called on Russia to cut ties with Assad, who Rycroft said was bringing Moscow only “shame and humiliation”.
(15) The rules extended from healthcare to the environment to workplace safety, but all were grounded in Bush's disdain for the government's role as a regulatory authority.
(16) Stevenson did not disdain the genre in which he was operating.
(17) Issues Sir Ken, on the other hand, is a professional Yorkshireman and farmer - the sort of chap who prefers to call a retail outlet a shop and treated press and City with equal disdain.
(18) The pent-up fury of the parents reflected the intensity of the violent protests that marked a dramatic week in Mexico, which has deepened the political crisis facing President Enrique Peña Nieto as he returns from a week-long trip to China and Australia, seen by many as a sign of disdain for the suffering and anger at home.
(19) What is clear now, for those for whom it was ever in doubt, is the reality of Tory values: the disdain with which they view the less fortunate and the reason why the annual cull of the impoverished through malnutrition and hypothermia is not a problem to them.
(20) Instead – spoiler alert – to the disdain of many, it opted for a more satisfying, upbeat conclusion.
Haggard
Definition:
(a.) Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk.
(a.) Having the expression of one wasted by want or suffering; hollow-eyed; having the features distorted or wasted, or anxious in appearance; as, haggard features, eyes.
(a.) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
(a.) A fierce, intractable creature.
(a.) A hag.
(n.) A stackyard.
Example Sentences:
(1) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
(2) Before that time I had taken in little beyond the juvenile productions of Captain Marryat, GA Henty, RM Ballantyne, Jules Verne, Conan Doyle, Rider Haggard, Robert Louis Stevenson, Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas, all works of adventure and travel, which influenced me to the extent that by the age of 30 I had spent eight years out of the country.
(3) Redknapp wore a haggard look as the thrashing was played out, forever demanding answers from a badgered Kevin Bond at his side as his players wilted out on the pitch.
(4) It had a congregation of more than 14,000 and Haggard became so prominent that he paid several visits to the White House of President George W Bush.
(5) Instead it was the pope who gave the week’s truly ambitious address on the theme of Europe , when he spoke to the European parliament on Tuesday, asking if the continent were now an “elderly and haggard” grandmother, one whose best days were behind it.
(6) But there is no doubt that Haggard is trying to move on and start to rebuild his life and old career.
(7) In January 1960, he played the first of his celebrated prison shows at San Quentin, where one of the inmates yelling him on was Merle Haggard, locked up on a burglary charge.
(8) Now Haggard says he wants gays and bisexuals to come to his new church, whose first few meetings will be held in the garden of his suburban home.
(9) Haggard now says he is heterosexual, but had gay urges because he was molested by a man when he was a child.
(10) Haggard talked openly about what he calls "my scandal", but also clearly felt that it left him an undeserving sinner.
(11) By Friday, as haggard-looking finance ministers from the G7 club of wealthy nations flew to Washington, the world's financial system was on the brink of disaster.
(12) But hearing them all do Haggard's right wing anthem "Oakie from Muscogee" is a nice enough moment, but we wonder if anyone in the audience has actually familiarized themselves with the lyrics.
(13) "He just got on a plane in Frankfurt," Haggard said.
(14) Haggard said the scandal that wiped out his first career as a pastor had given him a strong insight into suffering and that made him a better counsellor for others who were under stress.
(15) singer Nate Ruess, and a country music jamboree featuring Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Blake Shelton.
(16) Consonant discrimination was assessed using the Four Alternative Auditory Feature Test (Foster & Haggard, 1979), presented in quiet.
(17) They mix it up tonight, leavening their own songs with a medley of Merle Haggard tunes, Waylon Jennings' Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way, Tyson's MC Horses, and their own signature drinking song, It's Time To Switch To Whiskey – played, tonight, well past the point at which everybody has – amalgamated with Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Blues.
(18) The revelations destroyed Haggard's career almost overnight.
(19) The formerly burly general was not disguised but had false identity papers and looked haggard and much older, the officer said.
(20) Ted Haggard is back and about to start preaching again.