adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a supercilious laugh
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Dress shop assistants grow supercilious , aware that they can uplift or slay us with a single comment.
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He also had unusually heavy, drooping eyelids which could make him look comic or sinister, benevolent or supercilious .
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His lazy, supercilious eyes, too, managed their affectation of aloofness without actually missing a trick.
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The Lorrimores had arrived, each wearing yesterday's expression: pleasant, aloof, supercilious , sulky.
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The Rover abruptly swung out and roared past, the passenger cop giving them a suspicious but mostly supercilious glare.
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This viewpoint seems to have prevented him from doing more than cast a supercilious eye over the book.
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You looked down your nose like some supercilious llama!