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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Disdainful \Dis*dain"ful\, adjective Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty.
From these Turning disdainful to an equal good. --Akenside. -- {Dis*dain"ful*ly}, adverb -- {Dis*dain"ful*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
disdainful
adjective
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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