Steve Wynn

I have very little respect for the integrity of the trading on the exchange in most stocks. And I have particular disdain for the fact that the SEC has failed to deal with high-frequency traders who are doing nothing more than taking advantage of inside information, a buy or a sell order, because of technology advantages.

American Businessman

Eric Stoltz

It seems I have a hard time being attracted to someone unless I respect what they do on some level. Otherwise, I would feel disdain for them. Which is not always pleasant in a relationship. Sometimes it's fun though.

American Actor

Enes Kanter

Because I play in the NBA, I am lucky enough to have a public platform, so I've used every opportunity to make sure everyone knows about Erdogan's cruelty and disdain for human rights.

Turkish Athlete

Chuck Palahniuk

My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's reader is smarter.

American Novelist

Nikolai Gogol

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

Russian Writer

Trent Lott

We cannot forget the little things we take for granted in America that remain the disdain of dictators and terrorists throughout the world.

American Politician

Meryl Streep

Don't give up or give in in the face of patronising ridicule, amused disdain, or being ignored.

American Actress

Robert Walpole

I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.

British Statesman

Ana Kasparian

My disdain for Trump is clear and warranted.

American Educator

Laura Linney

I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.

Disdain can range from mild dislike to intense loathing. Context determines the severity.

Intensity Variation

Often implies a sense of superiority by the person feeling disdain.

Power Dynamics

Disdain can be expressed through facial expressions, tone, or posture, not just words.

Nonverbal Clues

Using 'disdain' as a verb shows an active choice to reject or scorn something.

Active Rejection

As a verb, 'disdain' is often used in intellectual debates or critiques.

Intellectual Context

'Disdain to do something' emphasizes the refusal to lower oneself to do an action.

Disdain to Act

 Those rearing clouds begin to neigh a whole universe of auricular cities. Listen if it rains while regret and disdain weep to an ancient music. Listen to the bonds fall off which hold you above and below." Each calligram is intended to allow readers to unchain themselves from the regular experience of poetry,

The poet who painted...

 so very few men with power are going to take what I'm saying seriously, as a matter of politics. We think of politics and anger in terms of the contempt and disdain and fury that are feeding a rise of macho-fascism in the world. But if it's that poison, it's also the antidote.

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 it may be best to simply foster the imposter. Brood parasitism tends to evoke horror and disdain. But why should it be thought of as any more objectionable than predator-prey relationships? And is it ever productive to impose human morals onto other animals?

Would you raise the bird...

 They channeled their infinitely justifiable offense and came to me with pointed questions tempered with kindness and humor. They approached me as a human being, and that was more transformative than two full decades of outrage, disdain and violence.

I grew up in the...

 Chicken or pasta? But worse still, assemblies of glass towers like this one in Moscow suggest a disdain for the civic and communal aspects of urban living. Right? Buildings like these are intended to enrich their owners and tenants,

Why glass towers are bad...

 The editor said, with enormous disdain, "I read this. And we're not going to publish it, because we only publish science." And it's an important issue, because it means that we have to, as a society, think about what we value.

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 seen if since I've you know been back but yes she is in Tina's mom it's crazy to think that in tema I remember said when we used to go see little in timo and she was tiny like these ones and interesting how far the disdain is

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 to how we value ourselves and each other that we rarely question why we have such contempt for people of size and where that disdain comes from. But we must question it, because the enormous value we place on how we look

Enough with the fear of...

 And the rabbis and the early fathers of the church who said that any interpretation of scripture that bred hatred and disdain was illegitimate. And we need to revive that spirit. And it's not just going to happen

Karen Armstrong: Let's...

 and greatly reduce suffering and death. So why haven't harm reduction programs taken off? Why do we still think that drug use is law enforcement issue? Our disdain for drugs and drug users goes very deep.

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