(1) Some faculty members seem to express a condescending, at times almost disdainful , attitude.(2) The railway people were disdainful of their customers.(3) Very few movies seem as disdainful of their audience to quite the degree of this one.(4) Though her words were perfectly respectful, there was a disdainful tone to her voice.(5) No one was openly hostile, but a few exhibited a rather disdainful sneer as they walked by.(6) He held his head stiffly with his nose angled upward and his lips pursed with a superior, disdainful expression.(7) There prevails at present, an attitude that is all at once, mutually suspicious, disdainful and hostile.(8) Several of the priests in the procession looked over the crowd with disdainful , superior expressions.(9) They often display snobbish, disdainful or patronizing attitudes.(10) It was always difficult, despite the president's disdainful silence on the subject, to imagine that all this was going on without his knowledge.(11) It would be arrogant and disdainful of you to assume that glorious mantle by yourself.(12) Many qualitative researchers are disdainful of approaches to research that entail the imposition of predetermined formats on the social world.(13) The simple words oozed with disdainful contempt that seemed to pass unnoticed.(14) The woman strode past him with a disdainful sneer and entering the temple, glanced about.(15) It's all in that gaze, simultaneously serene and disdainful .(16) She looked haughty and stuck-up, her face disdainful as she looked down at me.