Supercilious

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  • adjective. Feeling or showing haughty disdain. synonym: arrogant.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Lofty with pride; haughtily contemptuous; overbearing.
  • Manifesting haughtiness, or proceeding from it; overbearing; arrogant: as, a supercilious air; supercilious behavior.
  • Synonyms Disdainful, contemptuous, overweening, lordly, consequential. See arrogance.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Lofty with pride; haughty; dictatorial; overbearing; arrogant
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Arrogantly superior; showing contemptuous indifference; haughty.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
  • adjective. expressive of contempt
  • Word Usage
    "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."
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