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disdainful

 adjective
     
dis‧dain‧ful formal
showing that you do not respect someone or something, because you think that they are not important or good enough:
a disdainful look
disdainful of
professors who are disdainful of popular entertainment
—disdainfully adverb
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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