supercilious

How To Use supercilious In A Sentence

• Hubris, sometimes spelled hybris ancient Greek ὕβρις, is a term used in modern English to indicate overweening pride, self-confidence, superciliousness, or arrogance, often resulting in fatal retribution. Touchy, Touchy: Catching Up With "The Climb"
• The dress shop assistant was very supercilious.
• And exposing himself to that censorious and supercilious gaze?
• It is a fellow wine-lover who enthusiastically wants you to try something they have found, rather than a supercilious guardian of stuffy good taste.
• The shop assistant was very supercilious towards me when I asked for some help.
• And getting a reporter to print it without immediately following it with something supercilious is an even more awe-inspiring talent.
• I just didn't realize how moving it was and how radical it was to have that stated so clearly in the context of the kind of supercilious cultural milieu of indie rock. Be specific: Chad Clark, co-producer of the Dismemberment Plan's "Emergency & I," on how the album might have been very different
• This third march evokes the humor of Haydn, with many funny percussive rhythmic effects in a call and response format between secondo and primo, which Ms. Crawford performed superciliously.
• Mures, Muscae, culices prae se, nits and flies compared to his inexorable and supercilious, eminent and arrogant worship: though indeed they be far before him. Anatomy of Melancholy
• The supercilious cheechako might designate them high, Ballads of a Cheechako