Synonyms and Antonyms of disdainful
- a disdainful attitude toward people who work as waiters and waitresses
bold-faced, brash, brassy, brazen, cheeky, cocky, discourteous, disrespectful, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, sassy, saucy
arrogant, cavalier, highfalutin (also hifalutin), high-handed, high-hat, pretentious, uppish, uppity
haughty, lofty, lordly, prideful, sniffish, snobbish, supercilious
pompous, self-important, superior
catty, cruel, despiteful, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful
- disdainful of manual labor of any kind
complacent, conceited, egoistic, egotistic (also egotistical), important, self-assertive, self-conceited, self-contented, self-important, self-satisfied, smug, uppity, vain, vainglorious
arrogant, pretentious, sniffy, snobbish, stuck-up, supercilious
cavalier, overbearing, overweening, peremptory, swaggering
cocky, overconfident, presuming, presumptuous
bloated, boastful, bombastic, self-glorifying
audacious, bold, brash, brassy, cheeky, cocksure, forward, impertinent, impudent, saucy
confident, presuming, self-assured, self-confident, sure
bossy, domineering, high-handed, imperious
- disdainful remarks regarding the cheap clothes that the local people were wearing