Definition of "disdainfulness" []

• The state or quality of being disdainful. (noun)

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• "He was a singularly interesting-looking man, home from India on sick leave, and the maidens, and wives, and widows, of this polyglot assemblage at the Hotel were all inclined to admiration of his physical perfections, and to dissatisfaction at a certain coldness and disdainfulness of themselves, which, to use their mildest form of reproach, was "odd and unmilitary.""
• "Joan turn'd, and the two women stood looking at each other; -- the one with dark wonder, the other with cold disdainfulness -- and I between them scarce lifting my eyes."
• "Some hinted that, for all her disdainfulness and haughty pride, she would marry Sir John if he asked her, but that he, being as brilliant a beau as she a beauty, was too fond of his pleasures and his gay town life to give them up even to a goddess who had no fortune."