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disdainful Definition

dis·dain·ful (-fəl)

adjective

feeling or expressing disdain; scornful and aloof

disdainful Related Forms
dis·dain′·fully adverb dis·dain′·ful·ness noun
disdainful Synonyms

disdainful

modif.

scornful, contemptuous, supercilious, dismissive; see egotistic 2, indifferent 1, proud 2, scornful 1. See syn. study at proud.

disdainful Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • attitude: He tells a revealing anecdote about the disdainful attitude of the then United States captain, Arnold Palmer.
  • smile: Cecily stood in front of him, her ringlets whipping in the breeze, the disdainful smile he so well remembered curling her lips.
  • remark: There was another episode with Ronnie Ferguson making some disdainful remark when I approached him on the edge of the dance floor.
  • manner: Then one of the remarked in a disdainful manner, " Come, my dear, let us leave these vulgar creatures.
  • look: A disdainful look if you like, but the four is the card to play.
  • view: You can imagine the bookish middle classes who frequent such festivals nodding along with Humphrys ' disdainful view of politicians.

Modifying Another Word

  • openly: Los angeles center trump is saying also openly disdainful.
  • very: Then there was Judy, highly intelligent and graceful, a true Princess of the dog world and very disdainful of the common herd.
  • rather: Maryam protests and the owner is rather disdainful of a woman telling him what's what.
  • so: In 1997, Microsoft was so disdainful of federal bureaucrats that it created a Web site specifically to keep regulators at bay.
disdainful Quotes

Genet had been right at least about one thing. Blacks should be used to play whites. For centuries we had probed their faces, the angles of their bodies, the sounds of their voices and even their odors.Often our survival had depended on the accurate reading of a white man's chuckle or the disdainful wave of a white woman's hand.

—Angelou, Maya originally MayaJohnson