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Adjective: disdainful  dis'deyn-ful
  1. Expressing extreme contempt
    - contemptuous, insulting, scornful
     
  2. 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, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering

See also: disdainfully, disdainfulness, disrespectful, proud

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