: to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop would not even deign to talk to him One iconoclastic architect, for example, doesn't deign to speak of bathrooms.—
Does not deign?
To do something that one considers beneath one's dignity; condescend: wouldn't deign to greet the servant who opened the door. See Synonyms at stoop1. v.tr. To condescend to give or grant; vouchsafe: "Nor would we deign him burial of his men" (Shakespeare).
How do you use the word deign?
Deign Sentence Examples
- She does not deign to be clever....
- At the next review, they say, the Emperor did not once deign to address him.
- Her cat would never deign to come when called.
- He only saw in her a pretty and fresh young girl, with whom he did not deign to unite his fate.
