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supercilious::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, swaggering |
| Derivation | superciliousness |
his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air.
Examples of supercilious
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Did you admire or abhor William Buckley's precise and rather supercilious diction?
From the washingtonpost.com
The comment just comes across as somewhat supercilious and really can be annoying.
From the freep.com
Mike has an aloof, supercilious manner and, as it turns out, a secret agenda.
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It was a supercilious, Oscar Wilde face, with a nose that richly deserved tweaking.
From the time.com
Pop art's real genius is its acute critique of high culture's supercilious conceits.
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Maybe Warren Christopher isn't the most supercilious, ineffectual man on the planet.
From the denverpost.com
Commentary in our own time is liable to fall into the same supercilious perspective.
From the time.com
It's hard to be supercilious when you're spotted at Countdown in your painting shorts.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Constable was a supercilious sort, with a reddish British-army-officer's waxed moustache.
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- 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 ...
- Expressive of contempt; "curled his lip in a supercilious smile"; "spoke in a sneering jeering manner"; "makes many a sharp comparison but never a mean or snide one"
- (superciliously) sneeringly: with a sneer; in an uncomplimentary sneering manner; "`I don't believe in these customs,' he said sneeringly"
- (superciliousness) condescension: the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior
- Arrogantly superior; showing contemptuous indifference; haughty
- (superciliousness) The state or quality of being supercilious
- (adj) - arrogant; patronizing
- Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
- Haughty, arrogant, disdainful
