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Definition of disdainful : Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty.

Synonyms:

rejoicing, proud, triumphant, august, jubilant, haughty, exulting, swashbuckling, overbearing, disrespectful, supercilious, snide, dismissive, sniffy, dictatorial, lordly, sneering, prideful, authoritarian, study at proud, indifferent, swaggering, respect, triumphal, grand, exultant, imperious, egotistic

antipathetic, sardonic, disparaging, satirical, scornful, abusive, contemptuous, mocking, sarcastic, scoffing, jeering, flippant, ridiculing, deprecative, derisive, insulting

Usage examples:

• Again had that lofty, haughty figure stood before him, calm, disdainful, arrogant, and he yielded to a woman's prayer. - "The Spirit of the Border A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley", Zane Grey.
• " Always I have guessed what you wanted," she went on in that deep, vibrating tone which had such a rich quiver of anger within it; " but I never thought you would-" She paused, and a little disdainful laugh broke from her lips. - "Thelma", Marie Corelli.
• She is never disdainful of her public, and she is never bored by her work. - "Famous Prima Donnas", Lewis Clinton Strang.