Disdainful

Finding her new world cold, Mary is disdainful of her uncle's home.

But in practice, I found that this kind of performance has a really disdainful vibe to it.

The president of Argentina has a brash style like Trump, rebukes multilateral institutions like the United Nations and has taken a disdainful approach to diplomacy, snubbing meetings with the leaders of traditional allies like Brazil and Spain.

The reaction was disdainful.

Their songs certainly aren't appreciated by Lars' disdainful dad, Erick (Pierce Brosnan), who complains about all the electricity they use practising in his basement.

Postmodern academics, disdainful of America and the West, know that the best way to bring down our political and economic system is to refashion our history for future generations.

An alumnus, Okoli Offorbuike, said the action was disdainful and undermined the cliché “Kings and Queens” used for students at the university.

Half of the faculty didn’t speak to the other half and the medical faculty operated with disdainful independence.

It is shameful if not disdainful that Onwuemeodo will raise his empty head to begin to make comparison when he has innocently murdered the image of his principal.

Such talk likely would have scandalized Mugabe, who was openly disdainful of the drug.

The vocal minister claimed while inaugurating the new Governing Board of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) in Abuja on Thursday that the PDP was “unserious and disdainful of the truth”.

For most of his adult life, he was disdainful of cars, preferring to ride a bicycle.

In addition, Biafra was disdainful of the reunion, and having long expressed his disdain for nostalgia and rock reunion/oldies tours in particular, argued that the whole affair was motivated by greed.

Milton was disdainful of the university curriculum, which consisted of stilted formal debates conducted in Latin on abstruse topics.

The term was often used in 1950s science fiction film and novels by aliens to express a disdainful or patronising tone towards creatures from Earth.

While Bingley takes an immediate liking to the eldest Bennet daughter, Jane, Darcy is disdainful of local society and repeatedly clashes with the Bennets' lively second daughter, Elizabeth.

Wise is frequently and openly disdainful of Temple, and agrees with Fitz that his romantic intentions with Penhaligon are somewhat deluded.