"deign" is a word that is used in written English.
It is typically used to indicate an action that is considered to be beneath the dignity of the person who is performing it. For example, you could say, "The queen would never deign to lower herself to such a task."
I thought about Ebert angrily resizing nude photos of Aziz Johari (the "playmate" he didn't deign to name) earlier this week when the media storm broke about the publication on image-sharing websites such as 4chan of private naked photographs of about 100 celebrities, including Jennifer Lawrence, Scarlett Johansson, Rihanna and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
The gold in a ring is unoxidised metal, and transmuting it into the oxidised form would require it to deign to participate in some chemical reactions.
That a South Korean minister would deign to visit a Chinese tech firm which until recently was barely known outside its home country, let alone sit through such a lecture, is telling.
But there is one bit of good news for motorists: should they deign to take public transport, they will find Geneva hotels often give out free travel passes for the city's excellent trams and buses.
So apparently confident was he of victory that, over the whole period of the campaign, he did not once personally deign to canvass support.
No respectable journalist will consider that a story, or deign to cover it.
But few deign to explain how the construction of the millions of solar cells required to convert that energy into electricity would be financed.
During his trip to the area, the supreme leader did not deign to mention the mainly western countries that had rushed to Iran's aid, let alone thank the rescuers in person.
Congress, with Rahul Gandhi as a lacklustre leader who does not deign even to take charge of his reduced party in parliament, can only hope matters do not get worse.
England did not deign to compete for the cup until 1950 , 20years after the competition was founded.
Those firms in the S&P 500 that deign to disclose this have $650 billion of cash overseas, or two-thirds of their total, says David Zion of ISI, a research firm.So, when such companies do buy-backs, their American operations bear the burden of borrowing to pay for them.
