Disdainful \Dis*dain"ful\, a.
Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous;
haughty.
[1913 Webster]
From these
Turning disdainful to an equal good. --Akenside.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
disdainful
adj 1: expressing extreme contempt [syn: contemptuous, insulting,
scornful]
2: 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
[syn: haughty, lordly, prideful, sniffy, supercilious,
swaggering]
WordNet (r) 2.0
73 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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