All 3 Uses of
supercilious
in
Bleak House
- It is even observed that the wives who quote him to their self-willed husbands as a shining example in reality look down upon him and that nobody does so with greater superciliousness than one particular lady whose lord is more than suspected of laying his umbrella on her as an instrument of correction.†
Chpt 10-12
- So the young man makes his bow and goes downstairs, where the supercilious Mercury does not consider himself called upon to leave his Olympus by the hall-fire to let the young man out.†
Chpt 28-30 *
- A distant supercilious air makes a cold atmosphere about her, and there is nothing in her bearing, as there was before, to encourage openness.†
Chpt 46-48
Definition:
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(supercilious) arrogant (acting as if better, more important, and superior in ideas than others)