1. disdain - Noun
2. disdain - Verb
A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn.
That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion.
The state of being despised; shame.
To think unworthy; to deem unsuitable or unbecoming; as, to disdain to do a mean act.
To reject as unworthy of one's self, or as not deserving one's notice; to look with scorn upon; to scorn, as base acts, character, etc.
To be filled with scorn; to feel contemptuous anger; to be haughty.
Source: Webster's dictionaryDo not disdain the commandment to love, for through it you become a son of God, and when you break it, you become a son of Gehenna. Maximus the Confessor
Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling. Pierre Corneille
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands. Edmund Burke
One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it. Percy Bysshe Shelley
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain. Claude Adrien Helvétius