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Meaning of supercilious


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

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


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