What does deign mean?
: 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.—
How do you use deign in a sentence?
I can’t afford to wait around until you deign to answer me. He did not even deign to look at her. I think he might even deign to stay with me. The mayor’s hubris wouldn’t allow him to deign to reply to letters from the people.
What is the synonym of deign?
In this page you can discover 11 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for deign, like: lower oneself, be proud, vouchsafe, stoop, condescend, patronize, entreat, over, rise, descend and hold head high.