disdainful English

Meaning disdainful meaning

What does disdainful mean?

disdainful

— adjective (= contemptuous) expressing extreme contempt

— adjective (= haughty, lordly, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering) 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 a more swaggering mood than usual — W.L.Shirer

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disdainful English » English

scornful

contemptuous

haughty

arrogant

supercilious

sniffy

snobbish

overbearing

insulting

self-important

proud

lordly

insolent

imperious

swaggering

slighting

prideful

disparaging

despising

conceited

vile

superior

stout

sneery

pejorative

orgulous

lofty

jealous

irreverent

high-hat

haught

feeling contempt

fastidious

envious

domineering

disdaining

depreciatory

depreciative

deprecative

deprecating

contemptous

contemptible

cavalier

base

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Social behavior Behavior Admire someone

Despise someone

• What words describe someone who despises someone?
  contemptuous disdainful disrespectful haughty scornful snobbish superior