VERB
- have little or no respect for; hold in contempt
NOUN
- the state in which esteem has been lost
How To Use disesteem In A Sentence
- The Fund will support research projects intended to lead to an increased understanding of personal factors, social arrangements, social institutions and physical factors affecting the well being of disesteemed or disadvantaged persons.
- For the unconscionable fellow, owing to this coheirship which he pretends to disesteem, has been made privy to experiences which must not only have been extraordinary to so plain and humdrum a person, but which have been, as I happen to know, of great importance to him, and which -- to put the thing at its highest -- have lifted him, dull dog as he is, into regions where the very dogs have wings. Lore of Proserpine
- I've written an essay expanding upon my reasons for disesteeming his work, so I won't recapitulate those reasons here.
- Rhonda covered Mitch's body back up, and addressed the Detective with unconcealed disesteem.
- In fact, far from the love of esteem being grounds for disesteem, a total disregard of others’ opinions seems to reveal in a person a certain contemptuousness of others, a characteristic that is itself disestimable.
- Like cebil-seeds snuffed and smoked, intranasal bufotenine is throughout quite physically relaxing; in no case was there facial rubescence, nor any discomfort nor disesteeming side-effect.
- One disesteeming feature of the regulatory body is that although it has broad administrative brief, the final decision is left to the Minister for Energy a situation which creates opportunities for the Minister, a political appointee, to veto the decisions of the Board, the technical body.
- He was taught to see again how Rhetoric haunts, and Rhetoric bedevils, the vindication of the clouded, especially in the case of a disesteemed Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 1
- The biggest challenge of this mountain is its altitude, cold and severe climate, factors that never must be disesteemed in the intent to reach the peak of the ceiling of America
- The professional critic or literary scholar who equates metaphor with poetry and poetry with truth is both disesteemed and opposed by the philosopher who, after deciding that metaphors are literally false, or cognitively insignificant, dismisses them as ‘mere’ instances of semantic confusion.