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    Use "disdainful" in a sentence

    disdainful example sentences

    disdainful


    1. He would have his revenge for their disdainful treatment of him


    2. Ningla cast a disdainful glance at the man


    3. He was very weatherbeaten in appearance and very prudish and disdainful in attitude


    4. her grazing, regarded the stranger with a disdainful eye,


    5. The two guards watched her approach, one a corporal, one a private, both with disdainful eyes


    6. ” The kid was disdainful


    7. ” The kid was cold and disdainful


    8. He could still see the curl of his father’s lip and the disdainful arch of his eyebrow as he mouthed that awful word


    9. could easily be interpreted as a disdainful streak in his nature


    10. The bishop looked at Francis with a disdainful eye

    11. Stupid turned a disdainful eye toward Tom


    12. "Government at all levels is too large, too expensive, woefully incapable, disdainful, meddlesome, and grievous


    13. in his chair and swiveled to shoot her a disdainful glare


    14. Renaudin�s disdainful remark got him hard stares from Schmidt, Anderson and Lindsay


    15. A richly dressed woman of about thirty standing near the Queen then threw a disdainful look at nancy


    16. He acts bored, disdainful, even angry, if he feels that they are intruding on his precious time and, thus, abusing him


    17. Jeremy, offended for them, said ‘Amazing how disdainful childless


    18. disdainful, and moreover her age is so much older than you are


    19. With a disdainful look, she pointed at Sorren


    20. it was, a disdainful gesture of superiority

    21. ‘Yes,’ he said in a composed and disdainful voice that nevertheless exuded power


    22. ” she said with a disdainful awe and guilty adoration


    23. If we consider those creeds disdainful and silly, the creeds of the present nations are not of less silliness or less disdain


    24. One disdainful look


    25. “Whatever,” I say, meeting his disdainful glance


    26. Wearing a two-piece grey suit with pearl ear-studs, her scarlet lips were permanently moulded into a disdainful sneer


    27. If he needed a King and Queen to restore him, he was fortunate in having his remedy at hand; for, soon the large-faced King and the fair-faced Queen came in their golden coach, attended by the shining Bull's Eye of their Court, a glittering multitude of laughing ladies and fine lords; and in jewels and silks and powder and splendour and elegantly spurning figures and handsomely disdainful faces of both sexes, the mender of roads bathed himself, so much to his temporary intoxication, that he cried Long live the King, Long live the Queen, Long live everybody and everything! as if he had never heard of ubiquitous Jacques in his time


    28. The summer growth is innocent and disdainful above all those strata


    29. " "What silly questions you ask!" And Jo gave a disdainful shrug as the rest laughed at Laurie's matter-of-fact tone


    30. So, striving to divert her thoughts, Emma determined now to see in this reproduction of her sorrows only a plastic fantasy, well enough to please the eye, and she even smiled internally with disdainful pity when at the back of the stage under the velvet hangings a man appeared in a black cloak

    31. Disdainful of honours, of titles, and of academies, like one of the old Knight-Hospitallers, generous, fatherly to the poor, and practising virtue without believing in it, he would almost have passed for a saint if the keenness of his intellect had not caused him to be feared as a demon


    32. Paul turned away with a slight disdainful movement of the shoulders, very irritating


    33. On the contrary, Heyward thought the manner of the young Mohican was disdainful, if not a little fierce, and that he suppressed passions that were ready to explode, as much in compliment to the listeners, as from the deference he usually paid to his white associate


    34. His forehead was marked with the line that indicates the constant presence of bitter thoughts; he had the fiery eyes that seem to penetrate to the very soul, and the haughty and disdainful upper lip that gives to the words it utters a peculiar character that impresses them on the minds of those to whom they are addressed


    35. " The child stuck out his lips and turned away his head in a disdainful manner, saying, "He's too ugly


    36. " Villefort, astonished at this reply, which he by no means expected, started like a soldier who feels the blow levelled at him over the armor he wears, and a curl of his disdainful lip indicated that from that moment he noted in the tablets of his brain that the


    37. Why, did not the countess, the proud Mercedes, the disdainful Catalane, who will scarcely open her lips to her oldest acquaintances, take your arm, lead you into the garden, into the private walks, and remain there for half an hour?"


    38. There remained in the banker's house only Danglars, closeted in his study, and making his statement to the officer of gendarmes; Madame Danglars, terrified, in the boudoir with which we are acquainted; and Eugenie, who with haughty air and disdainful lip had retired to her room with her inseparable companion, Mademoiselle Louise d'Armilly


    39. The betrothed had retired, as we said, with haughty air, disdainful lip, and the demeanor of an outraged queen, followed by her companion, who was paler and more disturbed than herself


    40. " And Morrel dropped his head with disdainful incredulity

    41. When he was come up to Christian, he beheld him with a disdainful countenance, and thus began to question with him


    42. "What Antonia?" asked the Costaguana boulevardier, in a vexed and disdainful tone


    43. She made a point of giving a disdainful Pitty did not wish to criticize but after all-As for herself, said Pitty, she would rather


    44. spindling demoiselle, like her namesake the insect; her mouth was disdainful; over it hung a nose that was too long, thick at the end, sallow in its normal condition, but very red after a meal,—a sort of vegetable phenomenon which is particularly disagreeable when it appears in the middle of a pale, dull, and uninteresting face


    45. Nicholas knew that this Daniel, disdainful of everybody and who considered himself above them, was all the same his serf and huntsman


    46. On one side, precision, foresight, geometry, prudence, an assured retreat, reserves spared, with an obstinate coolness, an imperturbable method, strategy, which takes advantage of the ground, tactics, which preserve the equilibrium of battalions, carnage, executed according to rule, war regulated, watch in hand, nothing voluntarily left to chance, the ancient classic courage, absolute regularity; on the other, intuition, divination, military oddity, superhuman instinct, a flaming glance, an indescribable something which gazes like an eagle, and which strikes like the lightning, a prodigious art in disdainful impetuosity, all the mysteries of a profound soul, associated with destiny; the stream, the plain, the forest, the hill, summoned, and in a manner, forced to obey, the despot going even so far as to tyrannize over the field of battle; faith in a star mingled with strategic science, elevating but perturbing it


    47. His eyes were deep, his lids a little red, his lower lip was thick and easily became disdainful, his brow was lofty


    48. She was, on the contrary, somewhat incensed at this handsome and disdainful individual


    49. He smiled with a smile than which nothing more disdainful, more energetic, and more resolute could be seen in the world, and replied with haughty gravity:—


    50. With a disdainful youth; anoint his eyes;














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    Synonyms for "disdainful"

    disdainful haughty imperious lordly overbearing prideful sniffy supercilious swaggering contemptuous insulting scornful arrogant cavalier lofty

    "disdainful" definitions

    expressing extreme contempt


    having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy