'T is great, 't is manly to disdain disguise.
Young.
Syn. -- To contemn; despise; scorn. See Contemn.
Dis*dain", v. i. To be filled with scorn; to feel contemptuous anger; to be haughty.
And when the chief priests and scribes saw the marvels that he did . . . they disdained.
Genevan Testament (Matt. xxi. 15).