• adj.
    ⦿having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
    lexical concept
  • a more swaggering mood than usual
  • haughty aristocrats
  • his lordly manners were offensive
  • his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air
  • some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines
  • very sniffy about breaches of etiquette
  • walked with a prideful swagger

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:disdainful
  2. enl:lordly
  3. enl:swaggering
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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • disdainfulhaughtyimperiouslordlyoverbearingpridefulsniffysuperciliousswaggering
  • disdainfulhaughtyimperioussniffy