Disdain

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt The state of being despised; shame.

II. Disdain ·vi To be filled with scorn; to feel contemptuous anger; to be haughty.

III. Disdain ·vt That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion.

IV. Disdain ·vt To think unworthy; to deem unsuitable or unbecoming; as, to disdain to do a mean act.

V. Disdain ·vt A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn.

VI. Disdain ·vt 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.