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

This time he is not just a disdainful bystander but one of the targets of the discontent, challenging him to navigate the treacherous waters of campus politics better than Lyndon B. Johnson did in 1968.

From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2024

Her expression was disdainful and amused: it was all in the lips and the eyebrows and the set of the nose.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman