disdainful

disdainful
    adj 1: expressing extreme contempt [syn: {contemptuous},
           {disdainful}, {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"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer [syn:
       {disdainful}, {haughty}, {imperious}, {lordly},
       {overbearing}, {prideful}, {sniffy}, {supercilious},
       {swaggering}]
    

Disdainful \Dis*dain"ful\, a.
   Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous;
   haughty.
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         From these
         Turning disdainful to an equal good.     --Akenside.
   -- {Dis*dain"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Dis*dain"ful*ness}, n.
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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