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[ adjective ] having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy

Examples

"some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other disciplines" "haughty aristocrats" "his lordly manners were offensive" "walked with a prideful swagger"

Used in print

(Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)

He behaved publicly with a cocky , swaggering truculence that offended their vulpine Latin minds , and behaved towards them personally with an unimpressed insolence that enraged them beneath their blandness .

Related terms

proud

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[ adjective ] flamboyantly adventurous

Synonyms

swashbuckling

Related terms

adventurous

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