How to Use disdainful in a Sentence

disdainful

adjective

• He looked at the waiter with a disdainful glare.
• My mother whips her head around and casts me a disdainful look.
  — Yuxi Lin, Longreads, 16 June 2022
• Alfaro is going to strike out a ton and is disdainful of walks.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Jan. 2023
• The Germans were pragmatic, and the British were measured, and the French were disdainful.
  — Fox News, 3 June 2018
• The mask-less people at Kroger wore one of two looks: Sheepish or disdainful.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 19 Apr. 2020
• At the next table, a couple, their arms cross, cast disdainful looks.
  — Brienne Walsh, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
• His disdainful critique emphasized how Biden, just like Putin, cannot afford to lose the test of wills that will play out in the tense days to come.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 21 Jan. 2022
• Rumor has it that Lily, a somewhat older Coton de Tulear, is a touch disdainful of the new monarch.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 22 Jan. 2018
• His second just before the gong was preceded by a disdainful hand off in the face of Wales' scrumhalf Tomos Williams.
  — Daniel Gallan, CNN, 1 Nov. 2019
• Another part of me feels it’s unfair to treat those who are loving toward me the same as those who are disdainful of me.
  — Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
• The kinds of Americans who have been on the receiving end of the president’s most harsh, disdainful rhetoric.
  — Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 25 Sep. 2017
• These men also tend to be lonely and disdainful of others.
  — Kate Stone Lombardi, Good Housekeeping, 30 Apr. 2019
• Stewart was a student of Yousuf Karsh, best known for his portrait of an disdainful Winston Churchill.
  — Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 10 June 2019
• Another is that, in his quest to govern from on high, Mr Macron tends to come across as disdainful, and out of touch with ordinary folk.
  — The Economist, 14 Apr. 2018
• The man who was often disdainful and condescending to the media even briefly hosted his own TV talk show.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Feb. 2023
• Supremely self-confident and disdainful of all borders, the pair are the perfect guardians for a show in which Sikander blows open the form of miniature painting.
  — Molly Crabapple, The New York Review of Books, 8 July 2021
• His tone is disdainful toward women, or at least toward women who dare to ask why women still don’t hold the priesthood in the LDS Church.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Feb. 2022
• Is there any living actor better at the disdainful eye roll than Michelle Pfeiffer?
  — Lindsey Bahr, Star Tribune, 30 Mar. 2021
• Still, Gorsuch’s lack of a mask inside the courtroom seemed needlessly risky and disdainful of his colleagues.
  — New York Times, 14 Jan. 2022
• That doesn’t mean Katz is disdainful of the live theater experience.
  — Jessica Gelt, latimes.com, 9 July 2018
• This is what sets The End of Eddy apart; the novel’s tone is both intimate and removed, even disdainful, toward its subjects.
  — Samuel Metz, New Republic, 8 June 2017
• Kavanaugh, at least in his public writings, is disdainful of an activist court.
  — Colby Itkowitz, Washington Post, 11 July 2018
• The hard pass is especially effective when paired with a refusal to look up from your phone or a disdainful loogie hock.
  — Evan Waite, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2024
• Such talk likely would have scandalized Mugabe, who was openly disdainful of the drug.
  — Washington Post, 6 May 2018
• On the way, there is a trip to a concert with an uptight aunt who is disgusted by the spectacle of a woman singing and disdainful of music in general.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2017
• Though the daughter of an earl, Sophie has been relegated to the role of servant by her disdainful stepmother.
  — Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 25 Mar. 2022
• Tillerson disagreed with the president on Iran and North Korea, and Trump viewed him as disdainful and disloyal.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• He could not be seen, just as the little black boy was not seen, or was seen inaccurately, by the unperceptive and disdainful white boy.
  — Louise Glück, The New York Review of Books, 5 Jan. 2021
• The stereotypes about us were, and continue to be, disdainful and dismissive, mixed with a potent disgust for good measure.
  — Bobi Conn, TIME, 23 May 2024
• Twitter is advancing this position so that a disdainful hypocrite will be forced to buy it.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 13 July 2022

Last Updated: 3 Oct 2024