Synonyms for disdainful


Grammar : Adj
Spell : dis-deyn-fuhl, dih-steyn-
Phonetic Transcription : dɪsˈdeɪn fəl, dɪˈsteɪn-

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Définition of disdainful

  • adj scornful
Example sentences :
  • That he had lived in the City all his life and was disdainful of other localities, no doubt.
  • Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
  • That disdainful glance of his on the first evening I could never forget, billah.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
  • I did not protest, from a feeling of a sort of disdainful indifference.
  • Extract from : « Therese Raquin » by Emile Zola
  • She looked at him, and laughed; a cold laugh, disdainful, yet not bitter.
  • Extract from : « The Lion's Skin » by Rafael Sabatini
  • But he checked the impulse with a disdainful curve of his lips.
  • Extract from : « Under Western Eyes » by Joseph Conrad
  • Had you been another kind of man I might have been too hopeless or too disdainful.
  • Extract from : « The Rescue » by Joseph Conrad
  • Have you heard why she looked so disdainful at the Queen's Game last evening?
  • Extract from : « The False Chevalier » by William Douw Lighthall
  • It penetrated his brain that he had been going too fast with this disdainful beauty.
  • Extract from : « In Apple-Blossom Time » by Clara Louise Burnham
  • "Your medicine is good, Giaour," she said, with the ghost of a disdainful laugh.
  • Extract from : « Paul Patoff » by F. Marion Crawford
  • But his lips added nothing to the insult of that disdainful look.
  • Extract from : « Trail's End » by George W. Ogden

Antonyms for disdainful

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