disdain

noun

1. (uncountable)A feeling of contempt or scorn.

   “The cat viewed the cheap supermarket catfood with disdain and stalked away.”

   “He that with ſhepheards and a litle ſpoyle, Durſt in diſdaine of wrong and tyrannie, Defend his freedome gainſt a Monarchie: What will he doe ſupported by a king?”

   “Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes.”

   “Everything that could go right for England did although they never felt lucky and they chuckled at Kane’s third that ricocheted off his heel while he was looking the other way. Somewhere in the Moscow outskirts one could only guess at the grand disdain Cristiano Ronaldo will have felt at being supplanted as the tournament’s top scorer in that manner.”

2. (obsolete, uncountable)That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion.

   “Most loathsom, filthy, foul, and full of vile Disdain.”

3. (obsolete, uncountable)The state of being despised; shame.

   “The leaves and fruit maintain'd with beauty's sun ; Exempt from envy , but not from disdain”

verb

1. (transitive)To regard (someone or something) with strong contempt.

   “When the Philistine […] saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth.”

   “The country’s first black president, and its first president to reach adulthood after the Vietnam War and Watergate, Mr. Obama seemed like a digital-age leader who could at last dislodge the stalemate between those who clung to the government of the Great Society, on the one hand, and those who disdained the very idea of government, on the other.”

2. (intransitive, obsolete)To be indignant or offended.

   “When the chefe prestes and scribes sawe, the marveylles that he dyd [...], they desdayned, and sayde unto hym: hearest thou what these saye?”