disdainful

英 [dɪsˈdeɪnfl]

美 [dɪsˈdeɪnfl]

adj.  轻视的; 鄙视的; 倨傲的

BNC.21234 / COCA.22437

牛津词典

adj.

• 轻视的；鄙视的；倨傲的
  showing disdain
  1. She's always been disdainful of people who haven't been to college.
     她总是瞧不起那些未念过大学的人。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 轻蔑的;鄙视的
  To bedisdainfulmeans to dislike something or someone because you think they are unimportant or not worth your attention.
  1. He is highly disdainful of anything to do with the literary establishment...
     他对任何与文学界权威沾边的事都嗤之以鼻。
  2. Edgar cast a disdainful look at his twin.
     埃德加朝他的双胞胎兄弟投去鄙夷的目光。

双语例句

• But while he loves to play, he is disdainful of a life lived purely to accumulate more chips.
  但是，虽然他好玩，却不屑于过着纯粹累积筹码的生活。
• She made a point of giving a disdainful look to every soldier she met, and crossed to the other side of the street in as insulting a manner as possible, though, she said, this was quite inconvenient in wet weather.
  她特别注意每次碰到大兵都要给他蔑神的脸色，并且走到街道的另一边去，以此来表示最大的蔑视，尽管这样做在雨天是很不方便的。
• Had a roar of laughter burst from the multitude-each man, each woman, each little shrill-voiced child, contributing their individual parts-Hester Prynne might have repaid them all with a bitter and disdainful smile.
  如果从构成这一群人中的每一个男人、每一个女人和每一个尖嗓门的孩子的口中爆发出轰笑，海丝特白兰或许可以对他们所有的人报以倔傲的冷笑。
• These book sales are an astonishing development for a country once disdainful of contemporary foreign authors.
  对于一个曾经鄙视当代外国作家的国家来说，销售这些书是它惊人的进展。
• The lady dismissed her maid with a disdainful nod.
  贵妇人轻蔑地点一点头，将她的女仆打发走了。
• A curt or disdainful rejection.
  一种简单或傲慢的拒绝。
• He is highly disdainful of anything to do with the literary establishment
  他对任何与文学界权威沾边的事都嗤之以鼻。
• Edgar cast a disdainful look at his twin.
  埃德加朝他的双胞胎兄弟投去鄙夷的目光。
• "we worry." Will they be disdainful of my coffee choices, shocked by the children's bedrooms, aware that mud walls are considered fashionable in some regions of the country?
  他们会不会鄙视我的咖啡牌子，会不会被小孩卧室大为震惊，会不会发觉在某些地方其实泥巴墙是一种时尚？
• Even cosmopolitan liberals are unabashedly disdainful of their southern neighbours.
  甚至蒙古世界性的自由主义者也公然蔑视他们的南邻。