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showing that one feels that someone/something else isn’t valuable or worthy of respect

contemptuous, disdainful, insulting, scornful(adj)

expressing extreme contempt

disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering(adj)

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

feeling or showing open dislike for someone or something regarded as undeserving of respect or concern

a disdainful attitude toward people who work as waiters and waitresses

having or displaying feelings of scorn for what is regarded as beneath oneself

disdainful of manual labor of any kind

intended to make a person or thing seem of little importance or value

disdainful remarks regarding the cheap clothes that the local people were wearing

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