Definitionadj. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
Last update: July 4, 2017
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She is supercilious person and can't bear anyone else's superiority. [adjective]
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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." [adjective]
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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. [adjective]
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She smilesmirked supercilious (wept.) [adjective]
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Besides this, in his behavior to women Anatole had a manner which particularly inspires in them curiosity, awe, and even lovea supercilious consciousness of his own superiority. [adjective]
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Blanche Ingram, after having repelled, by supercilious taciturnity, some efforts of Mrs. [adjective]
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She was not a supercilious or an over-dainty woman. [adjective]
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And certainly the man's supercilious impertinence was beginning to irritate me. [Please select]
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He was no longer the drawling, supercilious naval officer in resplendent uniform. [Please select]
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