disdainful

• This isn't the same as the disdainful or patronizing attitudes too often expressed by engineers and other technical people.
• “My windstone.” Though his words were casual and his manner disdainful, his hand trembled slightly. —  Witch Fire.htm
• The young man looked a little disdainful, the young woman painfully respectful. —  Stabenow, Dana - [Liam Campbell 01] - Fire and Ice
• And the novel's protagonist, Sam Spade -- disdainful of authority, wisecracking in the face of danger, and impervious to the wiles of conniving women -- defined the ideal of the American private eye for all time. —  Madison.com - top
• The dark eyes beneath looked out upon the scene before her with a half-disdainful, half-wearied expression which deepened into scorn now and then as she watched the bar-tender rake over the counter double and three times the price of a drink in the generous pinch of gold dust laid there by some miner almost too drunk to stagger to the bar. —  A Girl of the Klondike

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