disdain

Etymology

From Middle English disdeynen, from Old French desdeignier (modern French dédaigner).

noun

1. (uncountable) A feeling of contempt or scorn.
   The cat viewed the cheap supermarket catfood with disdain and stalked away.
   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. 2018 June 24, Sam Wallace, “Harry Kane scores hat-trick as England hit Panama for six to secure World Cup knock-out qualification”, in Telegraph (UK), retrieved 2018-06-24
2. (obsolete) That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion.
3. (obsolete) The state of being despised; shame.

verb

1. (transitive) To regard (someone or something) with strong contempt.
   The Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, is but the apostle of God and His Word, […] The Messiah doth surely not disdain to be a servant of God, nor do the angels who are nigh to Him; and whosoever disdains His service and is too proud, He will gather them altogether to Himself. But as for those who believe and do what is right, He will pay their hire and will give increase to them of His grace. But as for those who disdain and are too proud, He will punish them with a grievous woe, and they shall not find for them other than God a patron or a help. 1880, “Women”, in Edward Henry Palmer, transl., The Qur'an, verse 170
   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. November 7, 2012, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To be indignant or offended.