- To be
sardonic is to be
disdainfully or
cynically humorous, or
scornfully mocking. A form of wit or humour,
being sardonic often involves expressing an...
- In
colloquial usage,
contempt usually refers to
either the act of despising, or
having a
general lack of
respect for something. This set of
emotions generally...
- tax bill Hamburger, Tom; Gold,
Matea (April 13, 2014). "Google, once
disdainful of lobbying, now a
master of
Washington influence". The
Washington Post...
-
about these young adults in that 'they were
reluctant to grow up' and '
disdainful of
earnest action'". Ben Stiller's 1994 film
Reality Bites also sought...
- set. Victoria, Lady
Henry Wotton – Lord Henry's wife, whom he
treats disdainfully; she
later divorces him.
Wilde wrote in an 1894 letter: [The Picture...
- When
Alexander asked Diogenes what he
could do for him, the
philosopher disdainfully asked Alexander to
stand a
little to the side, as he was
blocking the...
-
Nosal and two
other Harvard athletes,
sympathetic to
Langer and Yale and
disdainful of the
absurdity of the NCAA rule,
protested at the 1970 NCAA
Indoor Track...
- of
British descent. Roto Peru,
Bolivia Chilean people Used to
refer disdainfully. The term roto ("tattered") was
first applied to
Spanish conquerors in...
- made—handsome,
artfully crafted and acted. Smith, who
plays the
formidable and
disdainful Dowager Countess, has a
lovely way of
delivering words,
always spaced...
-
appliable (i.e., applicable) to the
person named."
Dryden in
MacFlecknoe disdainfully called the
pastime the "torturing of one poor word ten
thousand ways"...
