superciliousness
IPA: supɝsˈɪɫiʌsnʌs
noun
- The state or quality of being supercilious.
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Examples of "superciliousness" in Sentences
- a graceful superciliousness, which is very engaging.
- Consequently they endure society at home, with a smile, and a shrug, and a graceful superciliousness, which is very engaging.
- It was agreeable to get again among the uncontaminated, and to see the natives look at us without that air of superciliousness which is so unpleasant and common in the beaten track.
- The dictionary definition of hubris would go something like a term used in modern English to indicate overweening pride, superciliousness, or arrogance, often resulting in fatal retribution.
- Persons of taste, like the princess, are especially distinguished for their manner of listening, for an affability without superciliousness, which is to politeness what practice is to virtue.
- Indeed, that was another point he made today, after he spit at the "superciliousness" of the "bourgeois" journalistic elite that couldn't make up its mind on whether or not to charge for content.
- Not knowledge but the superciliousness which is the result of the conceit of knowledge hinders from God, and is one of the strongest fortresses against which the weapons of our warfare have to be employed.
- Moreover, even an ordinary observer will constantly discover faces which bear the unmistakable imprint of a ruling passion -- such as superciliousness, self-satisfaction, misanthropy, sensuality, and many others.
- Sitting in my apartment dumbfounded, watching these Boston ghostbusters reach deep, then deeper, it was at that precise moment I recalled my smug superciliousness, my supposed superiority by way of Yankee tradition in that Bunker Hill lounge.
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