[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

disdainful \disdain"ful\, a.
   full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous;
   haughty.
   1913 webster

         from these
         turning disdainful to an equal good.     --akenside.
   -- disdain"fully, adv. -- disdain"fulness, n.
   1913 webster
see also:
disdain"fully disdain"fulness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

disdainful
     adj 1: expressing extreme contempt syn: contemptuous, insulting,
             scornful
     2: 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 aristocrats"; "his lordly manners
        were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very
        sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my
        clothes with a supercilious air"; "shaggy supercilious
        camels"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- w.l.shirer
        syn: haughty, lordly, prideful, sniffy, supercilious,
         swaggering
see also:
contemptuous insulting scornful haughty lordly prideful 
sniffy supercilious swaggering 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

73 moby thesaurus words for "disdainful":
   abjuratory, arrogant, audacious, bold, brash, brassy, brazen,
   bumptious, cavalier, challenging, cheeky, clannish, cliquish,
   cocky, cold, contemptuous, contumelious, cool, daring, declinatory,
   defiant, defying, derisive, despising, dismissive, disregardful,
   exclusive, familiar, forward, greatly daring, haughty,
   high and mighty, highfalutin, hoity-toity, hubristic, impertinent,
   impudent, insolent, insulting, jeering, lordly, mocking, obtrusive,
   overpresumptuous, overweening, pert, pompous, presuming,
   presumptuous, prideful, procacious, proud, pushy, regal,
   regardless of consequences, rejective, renunciative, saucy,
   scornful, sneering, sniffy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty,
   stuck-up, supercilious, superior, toploftical, toplofty, uppish,
   uppity, withering

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