disdainful
Example Sentences
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They also told me he could turn on a dime and become reclusive or even disdainful of dinner guests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
A slap over extra cover for six was part of some disdainful treatment of Boland, who conceded 62 from his 10 overs.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025
Ruffin counters before delivering the death blow with a wink and faintly disdainful sneer: “That’s journalism.”
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2025
His invincibility has made him disdainful of humans and desperate for death, and yet he harbors a romanticized fixation upon love.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2023
Of course, Jimmy bawls and won’t go another step, and your partner gives you that disdainful, I-should-have-married-the-quarterback look because you haven’t gone 400 yards.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing disdainful
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