How to Use deign in a Sentence

deign

verb

• I wouldn't deign to answer that absurd accusation.
• The man behind the counter may or may not deign to greet you.
  — Anne Kadet, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2018
• So when the universe deigned to help out, astronomers jumped at the chance.
  — Joshua Sokol, Scientific American, 5 June 2018
• Maybe now the Tonys will deign to give an award for playwriting.
  — Vulture, 8 June 2023
• The fast food nugget has faced criticism over the years — no one would deign to call them healthy.
  — Lucas Kwan Peterson Food Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2021
• The best players deigned to have their own teams and could be happy only as the Jordans of their fiefs.
  — Harvey Araton, New York Times, 4 July 2016
• Only the majesty of the West was good enough for them—they'd never deign to spend a weekend on one of the rinky-dink mountains of the Northeast.
  — Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Oct. 2022
• Brown, like Coons, did not deign to mention who was saying these things.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 10 Nov. 2020
• The fact that our government would deign to try limit our rights is ridiculous.
  — Zahra Barnes, SELF, 14 July 2017
• Only thinness could deliver the prize of health care providers who would deign to treat me.
  — Your Fat Friend, SELF, 1 Sep. 2020
• And what about produce that’s so eccentric that even a farmer won’t deign to consume it?
  — Henry Alford, The New Yorker, 29 July 2019
• Woodley, a longtime TV star, has gone on record negging her friends who deign to watch TV.
  — Vulture, 31 Jan. 2022
• In a real loss for art and culture, Rihanna did not deign to grace us with her presence at the 2019 Met Gala.
  — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 May 2019
• MBrown suffers us fools who deign to ask him questions about his business.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 28 May 2019
• The Supreme Court didn’t even deign to hear his legal arguments about voter fraud.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2020
• Moonlight seems to simply descend, deigning to visit us for the evening.
  — Ben Huberman, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2017
• Of course Dimon, who fancies himself a truth-teller, did not deign to name names.
  — Daniel Gross, Slate Magazine, 17 July 2017
• Only the unflappable and bulletproof Robert Downey Jr. deigned to mention the changes to the makeup of the people who voted on the awards.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2024
• Moonlight seems to simply descend, deigning to visit us for the evening.
  — Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian, 21 June 2017
• Some alumni of prestigious schools won’t deign to wear their own school’s gear, anyway.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 18 Jan. 2021
• But against Arizona, no Ruunin’ Utes player or coach would deign to even think about saying that.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Dec. 2022
• If your dog won’t deign to sip from a dish, consider giving this slick and smart dog water bottle from PupFlask a try.
  — Sara Coughlin, SELF, 8 July 2021
• Half a day later, Trump, the most irritable man on earth, hadn’t deigned to respond to Clinton’s taunt.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 29 Jan. 2018
• Crowe's unnamed protagonist doesn't even deign to speak in the opening scene.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 18 Aug. 2020
• Dany, meanwhile, was on her throne with her people in front of her, starting at a moment’s notice when Jon deigned to take a step toward her.
  — Elyse Roth, Glamour, 31 July 2017
• And then after that, LePage had the balls to not just get pissed when a democratic colleague deigned to suggest that maybe the Governor was racist.
  — Jack Moore, GQ, 7 July 2017
• Later around 2019, the two companies finally deigned to be on the same device—but never active at the same time.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2023
• This has been going on for years, and every once in a while, one half of the power couple actually deigns to respond.
  — refinery29.com, 24 May 2018
• The head of NBC News' public relations didn't even deign to respond to the president's mocking gossip.
  — Rebecca Nelson, Cosmopolitan, 29 June 2017
• Suits may be going the way of the dodo and sneakers may be infiltrating the cubicle, but can a man at least deign to tuck in his shirt on weekdays?
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2018

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024