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.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of a Turkish Bath] Reference

Barnabe Barnes asks the lady celebrated in his sonnets, from whose 'proud disdainfulness' he suffered.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Splendid Spur] Reference

While coyness has the various meanings of shyness, modest reserve, bashfulness, shrinking from advances or familiarity, disdainfulness, the verb "to coy" may mean the exact opposite -- to coax, allure, entice, woo, decoy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Love and Love-Stories] Reference

The lack of common sense disdainfulness is a hallmark of this man who occupies our once revered White House, even to the extent that he does not recognize other people's efforts to be good, law-abiding and self-sacrificing for the good of their fellow countrymen and women.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Malcontents] Reference