3 Metaphors for disdain

These patches which you so disdain were once tiny plasters stretched upon black velvet or silk for the cure of headache, and, though no one was ever known to be so cured, 'twas easy for the illest beauty to perceive that they made her complexion appear more brilliant by contrast.

This helpless disdain was the natural expression of her face, and I am sure she fell asleep with a curl of the lip.

This disdain is a sure element of decay, and we may regard it as an announcement of death.

3 Metaphors for  disdain