Adjective: disdainful dis'deyn-ful
- Showing or expressing open disrespect and feelings of superiority
"he couldn't suppress his disdainful accent";
- contemptuous, insulting, scornful
- 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, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy [informal], supercilious, swaggering, orgulous [archaic], toplofty [US, informal], fastuous [archaic]
See also: disrespectful, proud
Encyclopedia: Disdainful