About The Word Disdainful
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Disdainful
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What's The Definition Of Disdainful?
[adj] having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "shaggy supercilious camels"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer
[adj] expressing extreme contempt Synonyms | Synonyms for Disdainful: contemptuous | disrespectful | haughty | insulting | lordly | prideful | proud | scornful | sniffy | supercilious | swaggering Related Terms | Find terms related to Disdainful: abjuratory | arrogant | audacious | bold | brash | brassy | brazen | bumptious | cavalier | challenging | cheeky | clannish | cliquish | cocky | cold | contemptuous | contumelious | cool | daring | declinatory | defiant | defying | derisive | despising | dismissive | disregardful | exclusive | familiar | forward | greatly daring | haughty | high and mighty | highfalutin | hoity-toity | hubristic | impertinent | impudent | insolent | insulting | jeering | lordly | mocking | obtrusive | overpresumptuous | overweening | pert | pompous | presuming | presumptuous | prideful | procacious | proud | pushy | regal | regardless of consequences | rejective | renunciative | saucy | scornful | sneering | sniffy | snobbish | snobby | snooty | snotty | stuck-up | supercilious | superior | toploftical | toplofty | uppish | uppity | withering See Also | Disdainful In Webster's Dictionary \Dis*dain"ful\, a.
Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous;
haughty.
From these Turning disdainful to an equal good.
--Akenside.
-- {Dis*dain"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Dis*dain"ful*ness}, n.
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