What is the meaning of the word 'supercilious' in Chinese?

supercilious - a. 傲慢,自大;


Some sentence examples which use the word 'supercilious'

  • She is supercilious person and can't bear anyone else's superiority.
  • He does not, however, seem to have reciprocated the courtesy of his French hosts, but gave offence by the brusqueness of his manner, though his supercilious bearing, according to his biographer, Dr Paris, was to be ascribed less to any conscious superiority than to an "ungraceful timidity which he could never conquer."
  • He treated with supercilious contempt the National Convention, which had dethroned the king and proclaimed a republic. Above all, he took up a declaration by the Convention, that they would give help to all peoples struggling for liberty against their respective governments, as a challenge to England.
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