Once you're up and running, a bank might deign to make you a loan.

FORBES: If You Want To Raise Cash, Get Brash

Other insurers might deign to sell a policy but exclude coverage for pre-existing medical conditions.

FORBES: Magazine Article

He offered the pen in the direction of Mr. Tuttle, who did not deign to receive it.

NEWYORKER: The Limner

She tried to bring the perpetrators to justice, but no one would even deign to listen to their story.

NPR: Iraqi Army Eases Militias' Grip on Women in Basra

As I am not a constitutional scholar, I will not deign to offer any specific language for an amendment.

FORBES: Campaign Finance Reform Does Not Equal Censorship

It was only the fact that my father was the most successful of his sons, though still only the younger son of a junior wife, that made him deign to have me in his presence at all.

NPR: 'Ancestor Stones:' Life and War in Sierra Leone

The government did not deign to reply.

ECONOMIST: Zimbabwe