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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abjuratory, arrogant, audacious, bold, brash, brassy, brazen, bumptious, cavalier, challenging, cheeky, clannish, cliquish, cocky, cold, contemptuous, contumelious, cool, daring, declinatory, defiant, defying, derisive, despising, dismissive, disregardful, exclusive, familiar, forward, greatly daring, haughty, high and mighty, highfalutin, hoity-toity, hubristic, impertinent, impudent, insolent, insulting, jeering, lordly, mocking, obtrusive, overpresumptuous, overweening, pert, pompous, presuming, presumptuous, prideful, procacious, proud, pushy, regal, regardless of consequences, rejective, renunciative, saucy, scornful, sneering, sniffy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, stuck-up, supercilious, superior, toploftical, toplofty, uppish, uppity, withering
Dictionary Results for disdainful:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
disdainful
    adj 1: expressing extreme contempt [syn: contemptuous,
           disdainful, 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
       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 [syn:
       disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly,
       overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious,
       swaggering]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Disdainful \Dis*dain"ful\, a.
   Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous;
   haughty.
   [1913 Webster]

         From these
         Turning disdainful to an equal good.     --Akenside.
   -- Dis*dain"ful*ly, adv. -- Dis*dain"ful*ness, n.
   [1913 Webster]

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