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Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty. From these Turning disdainful to an equal good. Akenside. -- Dis*dain"ful*ly, adv. -- Dis*dain"ful*ness, n.

Supercilious; haughty; disdainful; curt; brusque.

In a supercilious, disdainful, or haughty manner; arroganty. Junius.

Manifecting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful. A proud, contemptious behavior. Hammond. Savage invectiveand contemptuous sarcasm. Macaulay. Rome . . . entertained the most contemptuous opinion of the Jews. Atterbury.

Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful. Scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts. Shak. Curving a contumelious lip. Tennyson.

To stretch, as a crane stretches its neck; as, to crane the neck disdainfully. G. Eliot.

Coyness; disdainful behavior. [Obs.] Chaucer. In one's danger, in one's power; liable to a penalty to be inflicted by him. [Obs.] This sense is retained in the proverb, "Out of debt out of danger." Those rich man in whose debt and danger they be not. Robynson (More's Utopia). -- To do danger, to cause danger. [Obs.] Sh…

Haughty; disdainful. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Haughty; disdainful. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Disdainful. [Obs.] Revenge the jeering and disdained contempt Of this proud king. Shak.

Disdainfully. [Obs.] Vives.

Disdainful. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

Disdainfully. [Obs.] Bale.

To freeze; to congeal. [Obs.] Thou hast enfrozened her disdainful breast. Spenser.

Proud; haughty; disdainful. [Obs.] Barrow. Fas"tu*ous*ness, n. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

A fierce, intractable creature. I have loved this proud disdainful haggard. Shak.

Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing. A woman of a haughty and imperious nature. Clarendon.

To treat disdainfully or with indignity; to contemn. [Obs.] Spenser.

Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain. Let not the foot of pride come against me. Ps. xxxvi. 11. That hardly we escaped the pride of France. Shak.

To scoff; to act disdainfully. He said mine eyes were black and my hair black, And, now I remembered, scorned at me. Shak.