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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of disesteem.

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Examples

  • Even Williams himself admits that his disesteemed personal image has damaged his candidacy.

    Jonathan Miller: KY Governor's Race Poses Eternal Question: Can a Father-in-Law Love Too Much? Jonathan 2011

  • One of the key, and most hotly contested, elements distinguishing the Council from its disesteemed predecessor was to have been its composition.

    Suzanne Nossel: Avoiding Groundhog Day on the UN Human Rights Council 2008

  • While Andrew Melville has other claims on the lasting honour of his countrymen than the part he took in securing for Scotland the ecclesiastical system which has been the most powerful factor in her history, it may be held as certain that where this service which filled his life is disesteemed, his biography, if read at all, will be read with only a languid interest.

    Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series William Morison

  • Well, Albert went East (wearing some of the disesteemed things he already possessed) to be outfitted for the summer shores of New Jersey.

    On the Stairs Henry B. Fuller

  • In one place he says, "The Phylosopher's Stone is a very dark disesteemed Stone, of a Gray colour, but therein lyeth the highest Tincture."

    Alchemy: Ancient and Modern 1922

  • A jester at the court of his master, indulged and disesteemed, winning a clement master's praise.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • The Loring-Corliss case is now a matter of record in the dusty files of the "Usher Sentinel" and its decidedly disesteemed contemporary, the

    Sundown Slim Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909

  • 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 George Meredith 1868

  • 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 — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • He was taught to see again how Rhetoric haunts, and Rhetoric bedevils, the vindication of the clouded, especially in the case of a disesteemed

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

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