Sample Sentences fordeign (auto-selected)
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Against the fence, in a line, were six chipped-enamel slop jars holding brilliant red geraniums, cared for as tenderly as if they belonged to Miss Maudie Atkinson, had Miss Maudie deigned to permit a geranium on her premises. (source)deigned = done something that one considers to be below one's dignity
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They threw seeds from their hand as if they deigned to fling a scornful gift, and the earth was a beggar under their feet. (source)deigned = did something they considered to be beneath their dignity
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Maybe, just maybe, it would deign to answer me. (source)deign = do something considered beneath one's dignity
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Ser Waymar Royce did not deign to reply.† (source)
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Heimdall looked offended, as if that was someone he would never deign to take a selfie with.† (source)
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She does not deign to ask me what it is for.† (source)
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Hermione did not deign to respond, but approached Harry.† (source)
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CAPTAIN BENEDIKT NEVER DEIGNED to speak to me—he would stare out past my head if I neared him.† (source)
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"Your Majesty," said Konn Torin, still without deigning to meet Cinder's eye.† (source)
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He finally comes to a stop, deigns to put his feet on the ground.† (source)
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Thou lookest meekly at me and deignest not even to be wroth with me.† (source)standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou deignest" in older English, today we say "You deign."
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Augustus did not deign to make a choice at all.† (source)
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He turned to Wang, to whom he had never deigned to speak before.† (source)
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And I can't see you deigning to settle before you've really lived.† (source)
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Though Quin Veturius is seventy-seven years old, women blush when he looks them in the eye, and men wince when he deigns to shake their hands.† (source)
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She did not deign to inform me of her plans.† (source)
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