Deign (Verb)
Meaning
Do something that one considers to be below one's dignity.
Classification
Verbs of political and social activities and events.
Examples
- She would not deign to speak to anyone she considered her inferior.
- He refused to deign to answer the newspaper's impertinent questions.
- The aristocrat would not deign to attend a gathering of common folk.
- The famous actress would not deign to meet her fans in person.
- The professor thought himself too important to deign to grade his students' papers.