disdainful

How To Use disdainful In A Sentence

• He is highly disdainful of anything to do with the literary establishment.
• The woman strode past him with a disdainful sneer and entering the temple, glanced about.
• Some faculty members seem to express a condescending, at times almost disdainful, attitude.
• My mother, who was as haughty as Lucifer with her descent from the Stuarts, and her right line from the _old Gordons, not the Seyton Gordons_, as she disdainfully termed the ducal branch, told me the story, always reminding me how superior _her_ Gordons were to the southern Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
• He is highly disdainful of anything to do with the literary establishment.
• I then give him a disdainful look as he copies Brent's routine. The Sun
• Deciding that marriage was not so important for their third daughter, the Nis had loosened the bindings and allowed Kwei-tseng’s feet to grow normally into what upper-class Chinese referred to disdainfully as “big feet.” The Last Empress
• Many qualitative researchers are disdainful of approaches to research that entail the imposition of predetermined formats on the social world.
• some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines
• And when some of the finer diners cast a disdainful eye upon their shabby, old-fashioned dresses, the two women merely giggled and stared right back at them.