supercilious
IPA: supɝsˈɪɫiʌs
adjective
- Arrogantly superior; showing contemptuous indifference; haughty.
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Examples of "supercilious" in Sentences
- Maybe it's the superciliousness.
- Is this intellectual supercilious
- He is clever and has superciliousness.
- It contains a hint of superciliousness.
- I didn't mean it in a supercilious way.
- But there is no need to be supercilious.
- I can't stand for such superciliousness.
- Superciliousness comes before super silliness.
- You are obfuscating, and your superciliousness is burdensome.
- Once again, your attitude comes across as arrogant and supercilious.
- Mr. Obama strikes Bill Kristol as some kind of "supercilious" Marxist.
- Hence only the supercilious will be the ones who are expectantly offended.
- He spoke with great swiftness, the words tumbling over one another, not with eagerness, but rather with a kind of supercilious carelessness.
- One man with exactly that tone came and said, with a kind of supercilious reverence, "Is it possible that I now flash my optics upon a prophet?"
- I just didn't realize how moving it was and how radical it was to have that stated so clearly in the context of the kind of supercilious cultural milieu of indie rock.
- And regarding this case, Jackson told author Ken Auletta that the court of appeals was "supercilious" and had "made up about 90 percent of the facts on their own," among other potshots.
- He seldom deigned to notice me; and, when he did, it was with a certain supercilious insolence of tone and manner, that convinced me he was no gentleman, though it was intended to have a contrary effect.
- His whole body and manner cried out that he was a president with a war to fight who didn't want to be bothered trading verbal jabs with the kind of supercilious know-it-all he had loathed since Yale days.