superciliously
IPA: supɝsˈɪɫiʌsɫi
adverb
- In a supercilious manner.
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Examples of "superciliously" in Sentences
- His head was a might puny, superciliously tiny and just outright dinky.
- What will you prefer? an English work? or "-- superciliously --" perhaps
- I just wanted to back up my assertion that left bloggers were superciliously writing such things.
- I try not to treat people badly, nor to superciliously condemn them on the basis of some ancient myth or other.
- Far from feeling contrite toward Argentina, U.S. diplomats treated the Valenzuela episode rather flippantly and superciliously.
- She sniffed superciliously and gave me the change in small silver, and I had my revenge by biting and ringing every piece of it.
- Wilson, who should have been more embarrassed than he was, conceded that Findley was correct — but added, superciliously, that he had forgotten more law than Findley had ever learned.
- He basically shrugged his shoulders in response to the spill, and very superciliously noted that "getting our sources of energy has risks," then bloodlessly reminded us of the 29 miners in West Virginia who recently perished.
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