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Meaning of 'supercilious' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Supercilious [ a.]
- Lofty with pride; haughty; dictatorial; overbearing; arrogant; as, a supercilious officer; asupercilious air; supercilious behavior.

Meaning of 'supercilious' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . supercilious [ s]
Meaning (1):
- having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
Example in sentence:
  • a more swaggering mood than usual;
  • haughty aristocrats;
  • his lordly manners were offensive;
  • his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air;
  • some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines;
  • very sniffy about breaches of etiquette;
  • walked with a prideful swagger
Meaning (2):
- expressive of contempt
Example in sentence:
  • curled his lip in a supercilious smile;
  • makes many a sharp comparison but never a mean or snide one;
  • spoke in a sneering jeering manner

Nearby Words:

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