Disdainful vs. Imperious — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Disdainful and Imperious
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Disdainful
Expressive of disdain; scornful and contemptuous.
Imperious
Arrogant and domineering
His imperious demands
Disdainful
Showing contempt or scorn; having a pronounced lack of concern for others viewed as unworthy.
He was disdainful of those he thought of as the little people. He openly sneered at them. They mocked him behind his back.
She glimpsed at the people whom she had left behind, and smirked in the most disdainful manner towards them.
Imperious
Arrogantly domineering or overbearing.
Disdainful
Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty.
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Imperious
Urgent; pressing
An imperious necessity.
Disdainful
Expressing extreme contempt
Imperious
(Obsolete) Regal; imperial.
Disdainful
Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy;
Some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines
Haughty aristocrats
His lordly manners were offensive
Walked with a prideful swagger
Very sniffy about breaches of etiquette
His mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air
Shaggy supercilious camels
A more swaggering mood than usual
Imperious
Domineering, arrogant, or overbearing.
Imperious
Urgent.
Imperious
(obsolete) Imperial or regal.
Imperious
Commanding; ascendant; imperial; lordly; majestic.
Therefore, great lords, be, as your titles witness,Imperious.
Imperious
Haughly; arrogant; overbearing; as, an imperious tyrant; an imperious manner.
This imperious man will work us allFrom princes into pages.
His bold, contemptuous, and imperious spirit soon made him conspicuous.
Imperious
Imperative; urgent; compelling.
Imperious need, which can not be withstood.
Imperious
Able to deal authoritatively with affairs;
Dismissed the matter with an imperious wave of her hand
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