Their provisions must be renewed every day, for the greater part are disdainfully tasted and thrown aside.
Mai was disdainfully received by his friends there also, and although he threw himself at the king's feet, when he presented him with a tuft of red feathers, and three pieces of gold cloth, he was scarcely noticed.
They disdainfully rejected all that we offered, even iron, looking-glasses, handkerchiefs, and pieces of cloth.
The obsequious Senate proposed a Consulship for ten years, and Napoleon disdainfully ignored it.
In fact the writer in the Morning Post himself says that in time Palmerston was almost the only man to stand conspicuously aloof from the aged Prince, and speak of him disdainfullyas "old Tally.
She said this as disdainfully as her other capricious remarks.
As soon as Pao-yü heard this remark, he at once burst out in a fit of his raving complaint, and unclasping the gem, he dashed it disdainfully on the floor.
There is no good in going about the world disdainfully wondering how on earth a man could ever have taken up with such an antiquated creature!
You must have a dozen daughters surely,' a peeress said disdainfully to a commoner whom personally she liked, but whose family she did not want to know.
Anxiously desiring to learn why he was so much shunned and despised, he at length sought an explanation from an old friend; but he received only a disdainfully evasive answer; at which, being exasperated, he demanded satisfaction.
Madame de Saint-Dizier, looking at her disdainfully from head to foot.
And turning on his heel, he disdainfully snatched the handkerchief from his sword-point and strode resentfully away.
On coming to uneasy terms with his mother, he wrote disdainfully of her mental narrowness.
Mr. Froude writes disdainfully of Claire's probable presumption in 'perceiving the analogy of Byron's and Shelley's situation.
His lessons excited the admiration of enlightened men, and the anger of obscure ones, who disdainfully called him (because of the inn at which he lodged) the hostler.
Some dodisdainfully style it a huge old fortress; others a very grand and noble pile.
Julius von Hartrott replied mostdisdainfully to this, repeating the Spaniard's very words.
German science, leader of all sciences, is united forever with what the Latin revolutionists disdainfully term militarism.
Do you think that I will be questioned, and my replies disdainfully set aside?
Joining us at the window, from which we had a splendid view of the pageant, the critic, who was an accomplished horseman, reported disdainfully that “the boy was exceedingly awkward.
This last word was never applied to a fellow-servant, but freely and disdainfully fitted to the unfortunate freedman.
And he realized that he had pictured Lily like Manon in the midst of luxury, craving for magnificence and moving disdainfully before gilded mirrors.
The other places were filled by impersonal women who sipped from their glasses without relish and stared disdainfully at each other down their powdered noses.
Christian's lips curled disdainfully as he answered: "It does not concern you; one does not kill women.
So murmured these greedy adventurers; some accepting what fell to their share while fuming over its small amount, others disdainfully refusing it.
Before proceeding to this last extremity, he sent his chaplain Olmedo to Narvaez, but he was very ill-received, and saw all his proposals for an accommodation disdainfully rejected.
He spat disdainfullywith all an American's contempt for the inferior.
The mason pointed disdainfully to the tipcarts drawn up along the curb, where men and women were chaffering over dried fish and forlorn vegetables that would have soured the soul of old Adams, who once raised celery on this very spot.
She held a scarlet-lined parasol over her head, and from under the protecting shadow of this silken pavilion, her dark, lustrous eyes flashed disdainfully as she regarded her companion.
The impartial observer in him asked somewhat disdainfully why he should allow himself to be deranged in this physical manner, and he could only reply feebly and very meekly that he did not know.
Tlahuicol balanced it for a moment in his hand, then suddenly snapped its tough staff in two without apparent effort, and disdainfully flung the pieces from him.
And the young man disdainfully kicked the valise which he had placed on the ground, which emitted a metallic sound indicating the presence of gold.
He was now telling the country, in language as plain as Carlyle's, that Parliament was an effete institution--and the House of Commons which he treated so disdainfully was in a few years to choose him for its leader.
Disraeli had been contented with a 'policy of sewage,' as it wasdisdainfully called.
His appeals, the like of which neither the annals of Christianity nor even those of Islám have recorded, were disdainfully rejected.
Miranda's dark, piercing glance fell as haughtily and disdainfully on him as it had on the rest; and his heart sank as he thought that whatever sympathy she had felt for him was entirely gone.
Gallus by night had chains stretched across the mouth of the harbor under water and took no open measures to guard against them but quite disdainfully allowed them to sail freely in.
He, however, has looked haughtily and disdainfully upon my efforts and will neither be released, though we would fain release him, nor be pitied though we try to pity him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disdainfully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
