Usually means: Feels superior and scorns something.
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  1. disdains: Merriam-Webster
  2. disdains: Collins English Dictionary
  3. disdains: Vocabulary.com
  4. Disdains, disdains: Wordnik
  5. disdains: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. disdains: Wiktionary
  7. disdains: Dictionary.com
  8. disdains: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. disdains: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. disdains: Legal dictionary

(Note: See disdain as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (disdain)

noun:  (uncountable) A feeling of contempt or scorn.
noun:  (obsolete) That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion.
noun:  (obsolete) The state of being despised; shame.
verb:  (transitive) To regard (someone or something) with strong contempt.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To be indignant or offended.
▸ Also see disdain


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