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disdainful

 
Adjective disdainful has 2 senses
  1. contemptuous, disdainful, insulting, scornful - expressing extreme contempt
    Antonym: respectful (indirect, via disrespectful)
  2. disdainful, haughty, lordly, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering - 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
    Antonym: humble (indirect, via proud)
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