All around him were thousands of dwarf Ponderosas - doghair thickets, foresters disdainfully call them - crammed so closely together that they can barely draw the nutrients and moisture they need to survive.

Jamal/Skywalker (Percival disdainfully calls him the Moor) regales the people.

Mrs Eappen's voice called disdainfully, 'Wait there.'

It was full of clothes she never wore, presents from Rachel's parents, "girl clothes," as she disdainfully called them.

Republican county leaders make the news most often for feuding among themselves, with some accusing others of becoming too close to the Democrats in search of what they disdainfully call "patronage crumbs."

Attila disdainfully calls him a traitor to his country.

Among Moscow's nouveau riche - what average Muscovites disdainfully call "new Russians" - women's fashion still tends toward painted-on jeans, bandanna-size skirts and flashy gold jewelry and gemstones.

For St. Tropez, which once played a central role in the French imagination, has been overwhelmed and engulfed by tourism, by what some disdainfully call "the democratization of the beaches."

The art market finds ways nonetheless to turn even the political products of global reformists into what Mr. Enwezor disdainfully calls commodity-objects.

Dryden in MacFlecknoe disdainfully called the pastime the "torturing of one poor word ten thousand ways".