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I have come to hate her supercilious smile.supercilious = arrogant
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Her mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air.
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'Enough, enough!' said Fudge, with a very supercilious look on his face. (source)supercilious = arrogant (as though other opinions didn't matter)
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There it was again, that mysterious smile, sad and supercilious at the same time. (source)supercilious = showing disdain of those one views as unworthy
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...there is a disturbing, vaguely supercilious smile set into long, narrow lips. (source)supercilious = arrogant
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"You may be the only guy my age I've ever met who knows..." "Yes, well," Jace said, with a supercilious look, "I'm not like other guys. Besides," he added, flipping a book off the shelf, "at the Institute we have to take classes in basic medicinal uses for plants. It's required." (source)supercilious = acting as if superior to others
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While I spoke in supercilious accents, and looked at the room as if I had an oil well in my own backyard, my... (source)supercilious = self-important
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Gwendolen. [Superciliously.] No, thank you. Sugar is not fashionable any more. (source)Superciliously = arrogant disdain of those one views as unworthy
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Mrs. Nash looked at Cass with that absolutely infuriating superciliousness achieved only by chambermaids who have lately become great ladies.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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And even though we heard what they thought of the deacon at St. Peter's (a "supercilious moron"), what they thought of the neighbors ("He's courting a heart attack with all that fat"), what they thought of one sister when the other sister was up in her room—we were not meant to repeat it. (source)supercilious = arrogant
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Long elegant lines of sight stretched out before me, mazelike halls which had the feel of a haunted mansion: periwigged lords, cool Gainsborough beauties, gazing superciliously down at my distress.† (source)superciliously = in an arrogant manner
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He said it as naturally as Inspector Crome might have said it-but without the superciliousness.† (source)
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Don't be supercilious with your mother! (source)supercilious = arrogant
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She gave a snort and smiled superciliously.† (source)superciliously = in an arrogant manner
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Noted reed-drawers were they too, and looked round upon the other three with some superciliousness.† (source)
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Now he was a sturdy straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner. (source)supercilious = arrogant
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