All 8 Uses of
supercilious
in
Of Human Bondage
- While they talked of him he stood a little apart from the others, watching the noisy party with a good-humoured but faint ly supercilious expression.†
Chpt 25-26
- His supercilious attitude impressed Philip.†
Chpt 25-26
- As he limped along the high street of Blackstable he looked with a tinge of superciliousness at the people he passed.†
Chpt 35-36 *
- He was a cross-grained man, oppressed by a large family, and he resented the superciliousness which he fancied he saw in Philip.†
Chpt 37-38
- She proceeded to explain the pictures to him, superciliously but not without insight, and showed him what the painters had attempted and what he must look for.†
Chpt 43-44
- There was in her no longer the superciliousness which had irritated him.†
Chpt 71-72
- He did not go, because he was afraid to seem supercilious, and he talked with the girls and laughed, but in his heart was unhappiness.†
Chpt 103-104
- Philip liked to talk to the sailor-men, and when they found that he was not supercilious they told him long yarns of the distant journeys of their youth.†
Chpt 115-116
Definition:
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(supercilious) arrogant (acting as if better, more important, and superior in ideas than others)