Disdainful meaning

Adjective: disdainful

Pronunciation: (dis’deyn-ful)

Disdainful meaning:

• Expressing extreme contempt. Synonyms: contemptuous, insulting, scornful
• Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy. Synonyms: haughty, imperious, prideful, supercilious, swaggering, fastuous, ostentatious

Adverb: disdainfully

Noun: disdainfulness

Quotations: Joseph Conrad – In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as destiny.

George Eliot – For character too is a process and an unfolding among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations.

Thomas Gray – Let not ambition mock their useful toil, their homely joys and destiny obscure nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, the short and simple annals of the poor.

Bernard Berenson – The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing nature and humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.

Simon Raven – Whereas the gentleman always seeks to deserve his position, the aristocrat, disdainful and insouciant, is quite happy just to exploit it.

Sample sentences:

1. Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup.
2. He looked at the manager with a disdainful glare.
3. He had a disdainful attitude toward the council and department.
4. We looked at them with a cross between disdain and fury.
5. She could not suppress her disdainful accent.
6. Some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines.
7. Prince Andrew was struck by the extraordinarily disdainful composure with which one of his officials answered the old man.
8. To be disdainful is to act mean and superior.
9. Arrogant people are often disdainful and contemptuous in nature.
10. People of my village can be disdainful of political and social problems.