Sample Sentences for
supercilious
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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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    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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    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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    Don't be supercilious with your mother!  (source)
    supercilious = arrogant
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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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    ...there is a disturbing, vaguely supercilious smile set into long, narrow lips.  (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)
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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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    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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    "Confound the brute!" said Sir Andrew, with native British wrath, as Brogard leant up against the table, smoking and looking down superciliously at these two SACRRRES ANGLAIS.†  (source)
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    The sons resented this; they felt themselves cut away underneath, and they answered with brutality and also with a sneering superciliousness.†  (source)
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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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