disdainfulness

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Noun
  • The series follows the fictional Holliday, a former star whose arrogance burned every bridge.
    JP Mangalindan, Time, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Blenkin told Variety in September 2025 that his character's laughter comes from arrogance.
    Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • However, in the wrong hands, being silent can signal disdain and superciliousness.
    Matteo Atti, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Saturn has been transiting the first few degrees of Aries since May 24, bringing fresh momentum to themes surrounding our identity, autonomy and self-assertion.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Then, as Venus moves into Pisces, the focus shifts from self-assertion to a deeper, more transcendent love.
    Colin Bedell, Them, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • And nothing angers the Survivor gods more than reality TV hubris.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Political hubris and mismanagement have reduced one of the oldest water civilizations to a parable of collapse.
    Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Such comparisons are too easily drawn, with too much self-righteousness, as though the guilt for what was done to the Jews could be lightened just a little by likening them to their own murderers.
    Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The law also sets up a new legal presumption that the evaluator's opinion is correct.
    Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 27 Sep. 2025
  • And helping Kyiv get these systems will necessitate that NATO change its presumptions and priorities.
    ANDRIY ZAGORODNYUK, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2025
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“Disdainfulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disdainfulness. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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