His professed disdain may indicate that he is much more enlightened while, in fact, he is an inveterate literary gossip. Is it the way to interpret this sentence?
For all his professed disdain of such activities, Auden was an inveterate literary gossip. (A) For all his professed disdain of such activities (B) Having always professed disdain for such activities (C) All such activities were, he professed, disdained, and (D) Professing that all such activities were disdained(A) (E) In spite of professions of disdaining all such activities