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Antonyms for disdainful
dɪsˈdeɪn fəl, dɪˈsteɪn-dis·dain·ful

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  1. contemptuous, disdainful, insulting, scornfuladjective

    expressing extreme contempt

    Antonyms:
    respectful, humble

    Synonyms:
    contemptuous, haughty, swaggering, overbearing, prideful, imperious, scornful, supercilious, lordly, insulting, sniffy

  2. disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggeringadjective

    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

    Antonyms:
    humble, respectful

    Synonyms:
    swashbuckling, jubilant, exulting, authoritarian, triumphal, contemptuous, triumphant, imperious, sniffy, insulting, prideful, exultant, supercilious, rejoicing, overbearing, haughty, grand, scornful, august, lordly, sneering, swaggering, snide, dictatorial

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  1. disdainfuladjective

    Synonyms:
    contemptuous, scornful, contumelious, supercilious

How to use disdainful in a sentence?

  1. 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.

  2. President Bush:

    We have seen growing evidence that the dangers to our country can do not only across borders, but from violence that gathers within. There is little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home. But there is disdainful pluralism in their disregard for human life, in their determination to defile national symbols. They are children of the same foul spirit and it is our continuing duty to confront them.

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