disdainful
/dɪsˈdeɪnfʊl
/ /dɪsˈdeɪnf(ə)l/adjective
Showing contempt or lack of respect: with a last disdainful look, she turned towards the door...
- They often display snobbish, disdainful or patronizing attitudes.
- The simple words oozed with disdainful contempt that seemed to pass unnoticed.
- He held his head stiffly with his nose angled upward and his lips pursed with a superior, disdainful expression.
Synonyms
contemptuous, scornful, full of contempt, derisive, sneering, withering, slighting, disparaging, disrespectful, condescending, patronizing, supercilious, haughty, superior, arrogant, proud, snobbish, lordly, aloof, indifferent, dismissive;
mocking, jeering, insolent, insulting
informal high and mighty, hoity-toity, sniffy, snotty, on one's high horse, uppish
archaic contumelious
Derivatives
disdainfully
/ /dɪsˈdeɪnfəli / adverb ...- People had begun to frown disdainfully in my direction and the distance between us widened.
- Who would have ever guessed that she could treat him so disdainfully?
- Howard disdainfully and proudly refuses, tearing the thing from his face.
disdainfulness
- Exasperation can be heard, adding to the disdainfulness of the air.
- There's an implicit disdainfulness about connecting with noneconomists on any terms other than our own.
- Regardless of the disdainfulness of Hollywood and it's torments… she always kept that beautiful smile.
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