disdainful

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adjective

1. expressing extreme contempt (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
contemptuous, insulting, scornful
• Similar to:
disrespectful
• Derivationally related forms:
disdainfulness, contempt (for: contemptuous), contemptuousness (for: contemptuous)
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
- "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer
• Syn:
haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful,
sniffy, supercilious, swaggering
• Similar to:
proud
• Derivationally related forms:
superciliousness (for: supercilious), overbearingness (for: overbearing), lordliness (for: lordly), imperiousness (for: imperious), haughtiness (for: haughty), disdainfulness

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering, contemptuous, insulting, scornful