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Example sentences for "disregard"

Lexicographically close words:
disquietude; disquietudes; disquisition; disquisitions; disrated; disregarded; disregardful; disregarding; disregards; disrelish
  1. Such a singular omission must at least imply disregard on the part of the dramatist.

  2. It doesn't do to despise a Forsyte; it doesn't do to disregard them!

  3. The fields and hills seemed to mock the scars of road and ditch and furrow scraped on them, to mock at barriers of hedge and wall--between the green land and white sky was a conspiracy to disregard those small activities.

  4. And in all this concern about the situation there kept cropping out quaint little outbursts of desire to disregard the whole thing as infernal insolence, and metaphorically to punch the beggars' heads, natural to young men of breeding.

  5. We have some independent income; we could have afforded to disregard what people thought or did.

  6. Seeing her bone shining on the lawn below, with that disregard of worldly consequence which she shared with all fine characters, she leaped through.

  7. But, having no reliable or actual evidence upon which to base his assertions, Barton seemed inclined to disregard them.

  8. A good many people disregard the danger--even in these days of Zeppelins.

  9. And if he had been rich enough to disregard this consideration, he would still have had to provide sensation enough to induce people to listen to what he was inspired to say.

  10. Only exceptional people can disregard social conventions, and Jacques is not an exception.

  11. Suppose it is your personal conviction that a law is unconstitutional, may you disregard it?

  12. A disregard for them will so unsettle you that finally you will find yourself--at the foot of the gallows in all human probability.

  13. Miss Kavanagh, with a cruel disregard of this flowery speech.

  14. Them children haven't a bit of manners," declared Mrs. Van Wyck, in sublime disregard of syntax.

  15. He's next to Florence," went on Granny in sublime disregard of her pronoun.

  16. I gave my lover permission to believe that I would soon reward his constancy; if it can be called reward to obtain a wife, whose violation of her early ties gives the strongest pledge that she will disregard those which are new.

  17. There was such irresistible mildness in the manner of this expostulation, that I could not disregard it; and I was checking my horses at the moment, when my beau, who had fallen behind, suddenly passed me.

  18. Her ignorance or disregard of all established courtesies had banished from her table every guest, except one old maiden relative, whose circumstances obliged, and whose meanness inclined, her to grasp at the stinted civilities of Mrs Boswell.

  19. It was this conviction that induced me to disregard that ancient aphorism which says, "If the people will be deceived, let them be deceived.

  20. But we were told again that he could not abandon his project, and if he could not obtain what he wanted from us, he would disregard us and turn to the Emperor and Pope.

  21. His warning, on the one hand, not to disregard the secret will of God, and on the other, not to seek to find it out, is a masterpiece of wisdom.

  22. Moreover, after he had answered those who had first assailed him in the beginning of his public activity, he could afford to disregard many slanders, because they were mere repetitions.

  23. The consequence is a certain moral empiricism, which, if nothing else will do to justify its disregard of moral law, falls back upon pious feelings.

  24. Serious treatment of a first offence is demanded also where pupils try to see how far they may safely disregard authority and command.

  25. The subjects next to be considered in the choice of material for instruction are poetry and natural history, great care being taken not to disregard the necessary sequence.

  26. Even Mr. Herbert Spencer, the prophet of individualism, has never taken exception to our gross disregard of the proprietary rights of bees in their honey, or of silkworms in their cocoons.

  27. If so, their apparent disregard of utilitarian considerations may really be due not to their sentimentality but to their hopeless stupidity.

  28. Both display large heads, thick necks, coarse manes, and a general disregard of 'points' which would strike disgust and dismay into the stout breasts of Messrs.

  29. Throughout, the warning in itself is a useful one; it is we who foolishly and persistently disregard it.

  30. Another objectionable habit of the tropical ants, viewed practically, is their total disregard of vested interests in the case of house property.

  31. We all of us know, in spite of Sganarelle's assertion to the contrary, that the apex of the heart inclines to the left side, and that the liver and other internal organs show a generous disregard for strict and formal symmetry.

  32. Legislation as to bakehouses had been left unchanged since the Act of 1863, and in harmony with the usual disregard of their duties by the local sanitary authorities, little use was made of that Act.

  33. The root of the evil connected with the housing of the people in London lay with the disregard of "owners" for the condition of their tenants.

  34. Certain it is that offensive businesses of these and other sorts were carried on by their owners with an absolute disregard to the comfort or health of the public.

  35. No doubt, chatting familiarly with generals and field marshals somewhere, in blithe disregard of dignity and authority; for he was a brazen youngster and an indefatigable souvenir hunter.

  36. It did Tom's heart good to see the resolute, capable American officers sitting there attending to their business in quiet disregard of all these silly, vulgar signs of impotent hate and baffled power.

  37. Not that he had forgotten, or that he meant to disregard his friend Sir James Brooke's parting words.

  38. The truth was, Governor Rector had become incensed at the disregard shown for Arkansas by Confederate commanders.

  39. He knew not the usages of army life and really meant no offence; but, all the same, his utter disregard of army discipline made for great disorder.

  40. He appears to exercise," said Steele, "no restraint over his men in keeping them together, and his requisitions upon the depots seem to be made with utter disregard of the numbers present or even on his rolls.

  41. Captain Burden, of the Drake, showed an equal disregard for danger, but within thirty minutes after the beginning of the fight he was mortally wounded by a musket shot in the head.

  42. They penetrated caves and caverns under the cliffs with that sublime disregard of tides which is boyhood's happy prerogative.

  43. These three went on together, she trying to be brave now that the last had come, Pellams clumping along over the rough pavement and joking in ecstatic disregard of the discomfort of his fat body.

  44. If, however, we disregard behavior, we are bound to lose our way.

  45. To assert, in effect, that consciousness is indefinable because it is indescribable, and that for this reason we must be content with description, is both a flagrant disregard of consistency and an unwarranted abuse of our good nature.

  46. Thing" is no less an abstraction, in which we disregard certain continuities with the rest of the world because we are so constituted that the demands of living make it expedient to do so.

  47. Newton's "Hypotheses non fingo" should be the motto of every conscientious scientist who dares "trust his own perceptions and disregard the ukase of idealism.

  48. The State of California, soon after her admission, had assumed the right to dispose of the public lands within her borders according to her own peculiar wishes, and in disregard of the authority of the United States.

  49. Ottomans and secularists, who wished to Ottomanize every one and to disregard religion; and did not realize how much the twin principles of religion and nationality went for in the land they wished to govern.

  50. They outraged the prejudices of every conservative Mussulman by their open disregard of such an institution as Ramazan.

  51. The trial was conducted with an outrageous disregard of the forms of justice.

  52. Bessas and the other generals fled headlong with the rest of the crowd that pressed out of the Flaminian Gate, and the treasure, accumulated with such brutal disregard of human suffering, fell into the hands of the besiegers.

  53. Therefore we are not to disbelieve science, nor disregard the laws of nature, or we shall lose by our folly.

  54. You don't mean to say, sir, that you disregard foreign languages?

  55. Can you tell me that they have not heard of your conduct in Coleman Street, or that hearing it they disregard it?

  56. A parent is often bound to disregard the immediate comfort of a child.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disregard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abide; abjuration; abjure; accept; admit; allow; apathy; arrogance; audacity; back; benevolence; blink; bravado; breach; break; brook; brush; carelessness; chuck; close; concede; condone; connive; consider; contemn; contempt; contradict; contradiction; cut; daring; declination; decline; declining; default; defy; delinquency; denial; deny; dereliction; deride; despise; despite; detachment; digest; disapproval; disapprove; discard; disclaim; discount; disdain; dismiss; dismissal; disobey; disown; dispassion; disregard; distraction; down; eat; endure; except; exception; exclude; exclusion; excuse; fail; failure; flippancy; flout; forbearance; forget; forgive; forswear; grant; humiliation; ignore; impertinence; impudence; inadvertence; inattention; indifference; indulgence; insolence; insouciance; jump; kindness; kiss; lapse; lassitude; laugh; laxity; laxness; leave; lethargy; levity; licence; listlessness; looseness; magnanimity; mind; neglect; negligence; nod; nonchalance; nonconformity; noninterference; oblivion; omission; omit; overlook; overpass; oversight; pass; patience; pertness; pocket; procrastination; rebuff; recant; recantation; recklessness; refusal; refuse; reject; relax; renounce; repel; repudiate; repudiation; repulse; rule; scorn; scout; scouting; shallowness; skip; sleep; slight; sloth; slur; snap; sneer; sniff; snort; snub; spurn; stomach; superficiality; swallow; take; thoughtlessness; tolerance; tolerate; trample; transgress; tune; unconcern; violate; violation; waive