disdainfully

Example Sentences

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"Some of them are really awful," he says disdainfully of previous efforts.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2024

Pink remains associated with femininity to this day—but in recent decades, groups once disdainfully branded with the color have made moves to reclaim it.

From National Geographic • Jul. 21, 2023

He talked disdainfully about the “Twitter-tweet-meme-mean world that we’ve created” and said we’d better do our best to “turn this thing around” for young people.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2021

But the Rams were mistake-prone for a second straight game and were treated disdainfully by the San Francisco 49ers, who bulldozed their way to a 31-10 triumph at Levi’s Stadium.

From Washington Post • Nov. 15, 2021

Had you mentioned magic or Faerie to any of them, they would have smiled at you disdainfully, except, perhaps for Mr. Dickens, at the time a young man, and beardless.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman