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disdainful, a.|dɪsˈdeɪnfʊl|
[f. disdain n. + -ful.]
1. Full of or showing disdain; scornful, contemptuous, proudly disregardful.
a1542Wyatt Wauering Louer in Tottell's Misc. (Arb.) 35 Vnder disdainfull brow. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. iv. 53 The proud disdainfull Shepherdesse That was his Mistresse. 1663Cowley Ode Restoration xii, Cast a disdainful look behind. 1750Gray Elegy viii, Nor [let] Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 122 They..marched against the most renowned battalions of Europe with disdainful confidence.
b. Const. inf. or of.
1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 446 They are..not disdainfulle to conferre. 1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, ii. iv. 123 Stubborne to Iustice..Disdainfull to be tride by 't. 1746Morell Oratorio ‘Judas Maccabæus’, Disdainful of danger, we'll rush on the foe. 1874Green Short Hist. viii. §5. 505 An administrator, disdainful of private ends.
†2. Indignant, displeased; inimical. Obs. rare.
1548Hall Chron., Rich. III, 45 b, The malicious attemptes and disdeynfull invencions of his envious adversaries. 1550Coverdale Spir. Perle xii. Wks. (Parker Soc.) I. 133 Vexed in his mind and disdainful that he is not so..fortunate as other be.
†3. That is the object of indignation, hateful; that is the object of disdain. Obs.
a1547Surrey æneid ii. 850 For I my yeres disdainfull to the Gods [invisus divis] Have lingred fourth. 1586Marlowe 1st Pt. Tamburl. iv. ii, Villain..Fall prostrate on the low disdainful earth. |