disdainfulness
Example Sentences
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While coyness has the various meanings of shyness, modest reserve, bashfulness, shrinking from advances or familiarity, disdainfulness, the verb "to coy" may mean the exact opposite—to coax, allure, entice, woo, decoy.
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus
By now her words were not only casual but carried a trace of disdainfulness.
From The Iron Furrow by Botkin, Henry A.
Therefore he wished to call forth in his only daughter the traits of his own blood, his pride, disdainfulness and stiff-neckedness.
From Sleep Walking and Moon Walking A Medico-Literary Study by Sadger, J.
