Associations to the word «Disdainful»

Wiktionary

DISDAINFUL, adjective. Showing contempt or scorn; having a pronounced lack of concern for others viewed as unworthy.

Dictionary definition

DISDAINFUL, adjective. Expressing extreme contempt.
DISDAINFUL, adjective. Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer.

Wise words

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
Aeschylus