[ US /dɪsˈdeɪnfəɫ/ ]
[ UK /dɪsdˈe‍ɪnfə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. expressing extreme contempt
  2. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
    haughty aristocrats
    walked with a prideful swagger
    some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines
    his lordly manners were offensive
    a more swaggering mood than usual
    very sniffy about breaches of etiquette
    his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air
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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.
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