Sentence examples for deigned to answer from inspiring English sources

Mitt Romney deigned to answer questions about his tax returns today, assuring reporters at a news conference that he had never paid less than 13 percent of his income in taxes in the last decade.

Iran's nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, also suddenly deigned to answer a letter, sent to him in October by Catherine Ashton, the EU's foreign-policy chief, requesting renewed talks with the six-nation contact group.Less publicly, Iran has shown that it is beginning to be rattled by increasingly punitive international sanctions.

But Jack did not deign to answer.

The royal household almost never deigns to answer allegations but the crown prince himself also made an equally rare public denial to the book's allegations last week.

Ms. Farrell looked perturbed for a moment: There was still one pig missing, a sow that answers to the name of Abigail (when it deigns to answer at all).

The video-conferencing God deigns to answer a few of the town's questions, but everything he says is terrible, a series of religious cliches about divine authority and the "plan" that sends everyone into a tizzy.

Even as special counsel Robert S. Mueller III marches forward with his prosecution of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and as the case that President Trump engaged in criminal conduct grows stronger, the president and his lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani continue their tango about whether the president will deign to answer questions from Mueller's team.

In those seductive opening pages, Meaulnes discovers in the attic of the narrator's house some spent fireworks from a previous 14 July celebration (why anyone would put used-up fireworks back in their attic is a pedantic question the novel doesn't deign to answer).

This year, a grizzled, fairly familiar looking guy unfamiliar with the customs of the press conference took a front row seat at a session for billionaire entertainment mogul David Geffen, who had flown in from Sardinia to Beverly Hills Sunday to deign to answer questions from the press.

Only one deigned to reply, with a polite rejection.

Except for one unrelated email exchange, he has not even deigned to respond.