Word: disdained
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...think it your duty to-night to disdain...
WITH all superior cunning's mean disdain...
...become the fashion of late years for our large city newspapers to treat their less pretentious neighbors of the country with a kind of complacent disdain. We frequently see in them sharp hits against their plodding contemporaries, for commonplace and awkward expressions, and general lack of brilliancy. Though this criticism is to a large extent just, there is one matter in which our great metropolitan journals need to look to themselves. It is indeed a fault which is exceedingly prevalent in the highest class of our newspapers. I refer to the continual use of certain words and phrases, perhaps rather...