| 鄙视 | bǐ shì | to despise / to disdain / to look down upon |   |
| 唾弃 | tuò qì | to spurn / to disdain | |
| 轻蔑 | qīng miè | scornful / disdainful / contemptuous / pejorative / disdain / contempt | |
| 鄙弃 | bǐ qì | to disdain / to loathe | |
| 不屑 | bù xiè | to disdain to do sth / to think sth not worth doing / to feel it beneath one's dignity | |
| 嫌弃 | xián qì | to regard with disdain / to shun | |
| 不屑一顾 | bù xiè yī gù | to disdain as beneath contempt (idiom) | |
| 傲视 | ào shì | to turn up one's nose / to show disdain for / to regard superciliously | |
| 横眉冷对，千夫指 | héng méi lěng duì , qiān fū zhǐ | to face a thousand fingers with a cool scowl (modern idiom) / to treat with disdain / to defy | |
| 横眉冷对千夫指 | héng méi lěng duì qiān fū zhǐ | to face a thousand pointing fingers with a cool scowl (citation from Lu Xun) / to treat with disdain / to defy | |
| 嫌贫爱富 | xián pín ài fù | to favor the rich and disdain the poor (idiom) / snobbish | |
