disdainfully
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Definition
- Adverb:
- In a manner showing scorn or lack of respect: Expressing that someone feels something or someone is unworthy of respect.
- In a proud, arrogant, or domineering manner: Behaving as if one is superior to others.
Usage Examples
- Adverb:
- She looked at the cheap imitation disdainfully. (She looked at it with scorn.)
- "I wouldn't be caught dead there," he said disdainfully. (He said it with contempt.)
- The manager disdainfully dismissed their concerns. (The manager dismissed their concerns in an arrogant, domineering way.)
Advanced Usage
- "to act disdainfully": to behave with an attitude of superiority and scorn.
- The aristocrat acted disdainfully toward the merchants.
- "to wave a hand disdainfully": a common gesture accompanying the manner of speaking or acting.
- He waved a hand disdainfully, refusing to discuss the matter further.
Variants and Related Words
- Disdain (noun/verb): The feeling or expression of contempt; to regard with scorn.
- She viewed the proposal with disdain. (noun)
- He disdained their offers of help. (verb)
- Disdainful (adjective): Showing contempt or lack of respect.
- A disdainful glance.
Synonyms
- Contemptuously: With scorn and disrespect.
- Scornfully: With a feeling that someone/something is worthless.
- Cavalierly: In a dismissive, offhand, or arrogant manner.
- Haughtily: In a proud and superior way.
Related Phrases
- With a sneer: Often used to describe the facial expression accompanying speaking disdainfully.
- "Is that all?" he asked with a sneer.
- To look down one's nose at: An idiom meaning to regard with disdain.
- She looks down her nose at anyone who hasn't been to university.
Adverb
- without respect; in a disdainful manner
- she spoke of him contemptuously
- in a proud and domineering manner
- he treated his staff cavalierly