disdainful

• “How disdainful is that "certainly not mainly for art.”

  Social Fiction

• “Beatty has become a real advocate for DVDs, which may be a harbinger of the future (as Beatty seemingly always is) as other directors such as Steven Spielberg still remain disdainful of the medium.”

  GreenCine Daily: DVDs, 10/25.

• “The shoppers will be happier if they have a place to sit and watch the fountain," he says, in disdainful deadpan imitation of a hypothetical planner's argument.”

  What Main Street Can Learn From the Mall

• “Many friends have wished me to pass over that letter in disdainful silence, as refuting itself; and perhaps, if I were happy enough to be obscure and unknown, that would be my”

  English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century

• “Politifact's response at the time could best be characterized as disdainful indifference.”

  The Huffington Post: Richard (RJ) Eskow: Bitter Editorial Rant Kills Fact Checker Model, 'Ends Politifact As We Know It'

• “In some aspects of his life perhaps, thought Nicolette grimly as she recalled the disdainful way he had looked at her and the scornful things he had said.”

  Consultant Care

• “Blair himself projected the kind of disdainful self-confidence, verging on impatience, of a man who knows he's a winner.”

  The Guardian: Cameron's smooth approach to transition

• “She is "disdainful" and "condescending," but US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton delivers more manly "stinging rebukes.”

  Louise Arbour: another low-calibre drive-by

• “I suspect that those who believe strongly in a right are inclined to see non-believers as "disdainful", whether they are or not.”

  Balkinization

• “William Flesch considers the "disdainful" aspect of de”

  Notes on ''At the Far End of this Ongoing Enterprise...''

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