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All disdainfulness synonyms

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noun disdainfulness

  • aloofness β€” the quality or state of being aloof, distant, or reserved; indifference: His girlfriend's recent aloofness may be a sign that the relationship is over.
  • chutzpah β€” If you say that someone has chutzpah, you mean that you admire the fact that they are not afraid or embarrassed to do or say things that shock, surprise, or annoy other people.
  • disdain β€” to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn.
  • hubris β€” excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance.
  • pretension β€” the laying of a claim to something.
  • pride β€” Thomas, died 1658, English soldier and regicide.
  • smugness β€” contentedly confident of one's ability, superiority, or correctness; complacent.
  • vanity β€” excessive pride in one's appearance, qualities, abilities, achievements, etc.; character or quality of being vain; conceit: Failure to be elected was a great blow to his vanity.
  • airs β€” affected manners intended to impress others (esp in the phrases give oneself airs, put on airs)
  • audacity β€” Audacity is audacious behaviour.
  • bluster β€” If you say that someone is blustering, you mean that they are speaking aggressively but without authority, often because they are angry or offended.
  • braggadocio β€” vain empty boasting
  • brass β€” Brass is a yellow-coloured metal made from copper and zinc. It is used especially for making ornaments and musical instruments.
  • cheek β€” Your cheeks are the sides of your face below your eyes.
  • conceit β€” Conceit is very great pride in your abilities or achievements that other people feel is too great.
  • conceitedness β€” having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.
  • contemptuousness β€” showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; disrespectful.
  • crust β€” The crust on a loaf of bread is the outside part.
  • gall β€” (Pizi) 1840?–94, leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux: a major chief in the battle of Little Bighorn.
  • haughtiness β€” disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.
  • hauteur β€” haughty manner or spirit; arrogance.
  • high-handedness β€” condescending or presumptuous; overbearing; arbitrary: He has a highhanded manner.
  • imperiousness β€” domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing: an imperious manner; an imperious person.
  • insolence β€” contemptuously rude or impertinent behavior or speech.
  • loftiness β€” extending high in the air; of imposing height; towering: lofty mountains.
  • nerve β€” one or more bundles of fibers forming part of a system that conveys impulses of sensation, motion, etc., between the brain or spinal cord and other parts of the body.
  • ostentation β€” pretentious or conspicuous show, as of wealth or importance; display intended to impress others.
  • pomposity β€” the quality of being pompous.
  • presumption β€” the act of presuming.
  • pretentiousness β€” characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
  • priggishness β€” a person who displays or demands of others pointlessly precise conformity, fussiness about trivialities, or exaggerated propriety, especially in a self-righteous or irritating manner.
  • self-important β€” having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
  • self-love β€” the instinct by which one's actions are directed to the promotion of one's own welfare or well-being, especially an excessive regard for one's own advantage.
  • superciliousness β€” haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.
  • swagger β€” to walk or strut with a defiant or insolent air.
  • scornful β€” full of scorn; derisive; contemptuous: He smiled in a scornful way.
  • arrogance β€” the quality or state of being arrogant; overbearing pride or self-importance
  • contempt β€” If you have contempt for someone or something, you have no respect for them or think that they are unimportant.
  • snobbish β€” of, relating to, or characteristic of a snob: snobbish ideas about rank.
  • condescension β€” Condescension is condescending behaviour.
  • abuse β€” Abuse of someone is cruel and violent treatment of them.
  • affront β€” If something affronts you, you feel insulted and hurt because of it.
  • blasphemy β€” You can describe something that shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemy.
  • disgrace β€” the loss of respect, honor, or esteem; ignominy; shame: the disgrace of criminals.
  • disrespect β€” Lack of respect or courtesy.
  • indignity β€” an injury to a person's dignity; slighting or contemptuous treatment; humiliating affront, insult, or injury.
  • invective β€” vehement or violent denunciation, censure, or reproach.
  • libel β€” the false accusation that Jews murder Christian children to use their blood in religious rituals: blood libels that spread throughout Europe in the Middle Ages.
  • outrage β€” an act of wanton cruelty or violence; any gross violation of law or decency.
  • put-down β€” a landing of an aircraft.
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