All 8 Uses

supercilious
in
Of Human Bondage
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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

supercilious = arrogant
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

superciliously = in an arrogant manner
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

supercilious = arrogant
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

Definitions:

(1) (supercilious)
arrogant (acting as if better, more important, and superior in ideas than others)
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)