Examples of disdainful in a Sentence
He looked at the waiter with a disdainful glare.
a disdainful attitude toward authority
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Wise minds inside the Trump administration will hopefully choose to drop a suit first introduced during by a Biden administration reflexively disdainful of big.
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John Tamny, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Now, with Donald J. Trump installed in the White House, Mr. Zelensky is facing a new challenge: maintaining good relations with the country’s most critical ally and a president who has been disdainful toward him and skeptical of military aid.
—Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
The Victorian Society of New York, which is often highly orthodox and disdainful about these kinds of changes, also came out in favor.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 14 Jan. 2025
The man, no, the boy that 3,000 people had crammed inside London’s Alexandra Palace to see produce history, plus millions more watching at home and in pubs around the UK and the world, was doing it not just with dispassionate ease, or with flamboyant style, but with disdainful relish.
—Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025
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John Tamny, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Now, with Donald J. Trump installed in the White House, Mr. Zelensky is facing a new challenge: maintaining good relations with the country’s most critical ally and a president who has been disdainful toward him and skeptical of military aid.
—Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
The Victorian Society of New York, which is often highly orthodox and disdainful about these kinds of changes, also came out in favor.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 14 Jan. 2025
The man, no, the boy that 3,000 people had crammed inside London’s Alexandra Palace to see produce history, plus millions more watching at home and in pubs around the UK and the world, was doing it not just with dispassionate ease, or with flamboyant style, but with disdainful relish.
—Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025
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“Disdainful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disdainful. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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disdainful
adjective
dis·dain·ful
dis-ˈdān-fəl 
: full of or expressing disdain
disdainfulness
noun
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