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 Translation for 'disdainfully' from English to Russian
SYNO cavalierly | contemptuously | contumeliously | ...
с презрением {adv}disdainfully
презрительно {adv}disdainfully
пренебрежительно {adv} [презрительно]disdainfully
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Usage Examples English
  • "Nunca pasa nada" depicts an environment and characters similar to the ones appearing in Bardem's great success, "Calle Mayor" ("Main Street"), to the point that some critics nicknamed it disdainfully "Calle Menor" ("Minor Street").
  • To be sardonic is to be disdainfully or cynically humorous, or scornfully mocking.
  • nicknamed it disdainfully "Calle Menor" ("Minor street").
  • This offer was "disdainfully rejected by the Government on the flimsy pretext that no place could ever be found."
  • The local Portuguese conservative community was shocked by this overt relationship, but Pessanha was disdainfully indifferent to them.

  • At the end of Chapter 1 of Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Becky Sharp disdainfully throws a copy of Johnson's "Dictionary" out the window.
  • Early Anabaptists were viewed disdainfully by their adversaries as a radical peasant movement.
  • Olympia disdainfully ignores the flowers presented to her by her servant, probably a gift from a client.
  • The novel is narrated by 11-year-old Jon Whitcroft, who is sent against his will to boarding school in Salisbury after an unsuccessful campaign to get rid of his mother's boyfriend, whom he disdainfully calls The Beard.
  • The song is mentioned by James Joyce in "Ulysses". It is also referred to, disdainfully, in George Eliot's Middlemarch.

  • Before sending, he showed it to Mi Heng, who disdainfully remarked: "Is this letter for children in Sun Ce's domain to read out?
  • She speaks disdainfully of marriage and makes it clear she is happily divorced.
  • Romney supporters used "Chicago" as an epithet and referred disdainfully to "Chicago-style politics".
  • One of the guests, Link Phillips, makes a pass at her the next morning, but she disdainfully rejects him.
  • Indeed, not only did Jeremiah repeatedly apply this epithet to Babylonian scholars, but he spoke disdainfully of his nativeland as well.

  • A desperate Hitler makes a break for it and is shot by the SS officer in charge, who states disdainfully and ironically: "To think that Germany could produce a piece of filth like you."
  • Before this, eroticism intermingled with Christian revelations were treated disdainfully.
  • On January 18, 2023, Atlanta police officers shot and killed Manuel Teran, who was protesting the deforestation of 300 acres of public park in Altanta to build a $90-million police training facility; critics have disdainfully dubbed the project "Cop City" and claim it will be used to practice urban warfare.
  • But soon after Michel-Lévy sells Degas' painting, which irritates Degas who disdainfully comments: "You have done a despicable thing; you knew very well that I couldn't sell your portrait".
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