1. disdainful - Adjective
2. disdainful - Adjective Satellite
Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty.
Source: Webster's dictionaryOrdinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be involved, and governments repudiate them, more often than not with a disdainful shrug of the shoulders. Charles Albert Gobat
Women thought me charmingly shy, and sometimes stopped at nothing to "penetrate the disdainful shell of my fear,” as one of their number put it. Often as not, it was they who got penetrated. John Barth
Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. Thomas Gray
She gave me a disdainful look. "Please don't make facile judgments about things you don't understand.”. Robert Charles Wilson
There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful. Maya Angelou
The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do. H. L. Mencken