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- verb rare Simple past tense and past participle of
distain . - adjective rare
stained ,discoloured ,tarnished
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Examples
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Such kind of hypocrites are called distained, or coloured.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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Even in Spain, we're hotly distained whether village or city or mountain or plain.
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BRINKLEY: The one thing that I think transcends all the other things they have in common between FDR and Ronald Reagan is both of them distained utilitarianism in guise.
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We knew Viggo has a habit of ignoring rules like this and generally distained the little index cards: so UnViggian!
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That in a culture which liberally contracepts while marriage is distained, yet women continue to bear children out of wedlock and into poverty and drug infested 'homes' - is there something morally wrong?
Archive 2006-07-02 Terry Nelson 2006
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That in a culture which liberally contracepts while marriage is distained, yet women continue to bear children out of wedlock and into poverty and drug infested 'homes' - is there something morally wrong?
Archive 2006-07-01 Terry Nelson 2006
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I distained such schedules partly because I am spoiled example: I would think, I don't need to see Jennifer Armstrong again and partly because I was unaware of how these booths work.
Archive 2006-06-01 fusenumber8 2006
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Also if she was a "selkie" she would not be "distained by the islanders".
Hh Com 333 Miss Snark 2006
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The scientists who are so distained these days have known and invented innumerable ways to stop the pollution and to use the glut.
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That in a culture which liberally contracepts while marriage is distained, yet women continue to bear children out of wedlock and into poverty and drug infested 'homes' - is there something morally wrong?
Rage and murder, it's just a kiss away... Terry Nelson 2006
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