How To Use Supercilious In A Sentence
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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"
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The dress shop assistant was very supercilious.
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And exposing himself to that censorious and supercilious gaze?
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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.
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The shop assistant was very supercilious towards me when I asked for some help.
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And getting a reporter to print it without immediately following it with something supercilious is an even more awe-inspiring talent.
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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
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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.
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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
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The supercilious cheechako might designate them high,
Ballads of a Cheechako
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It always bemuses me when people get upset about supercilious piffle like good manners but dont get upset about important things like radical islam, Neathergate, EUSSR, the mps expenses scandal.
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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In his manner there was nothing of the supercilious apathy which characterizes the dandy introduced to some one whom he doubts if he can nod to from the bow-window at White's, -- none of such vulgar coxcombries had Lord Castleton; and yet a young gentleman more emphatically coxcomb it was impossible to see.
The Caxtons — Volume 11
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Thus the Rome official showed his arrogance superciliously.
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Darcy, though attracted to the next sister, the lively and spirited Elizabeth, greatly offends her by his supercilious behaviour at a ball.
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When you consider he works in an industry known for its excess of pretentious luvvies and supercilious fashion junkies, his down-to-earth nature is surprising.
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She remains faithful to Thackeray's vision but adds a touch of candour to his tone of condescension, a sparkle to the supercilious ways of the British rich.
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Surely this inquiry is not one to be superciliously set aside by the materialists, after the failure of their uranological expedition, on the ground that it does not furnish food enough for scientific contemplation, without such physiological fancies as their specialists have been giving us in the shape of force-correlations and molecular theories of life.
Life: Its True Genesis
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Having bid farewell to Iain Gray at the end of the last session in suitably supercilious tones the Labour leader having announced his intention to demit office, the first minister will have the same look on his face that he normally reserves for his favourite chicken tikka masala.
Come on, someone must want to lead Labour | Kevin McKenna
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I live in Massachusetts so know Good Ol 'Mitt Romney from way back and there's never been a phonier, more supercilious human on the planet.
Poll: Romney Leading In Iowa ��� And Huckabee In Second Place
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One man with exactly that tone came and said, with a kind of supercilious reverence, "Is it possible that I now flash my optics upon a prophet?
By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog
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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
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He unfolded the step-ladder, silently with a supercilious gesture of his hand declined my request to help him, and climbed right up to the roof.
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Yeah, I kinda get irritated with people that seem supercilious about not having a TV.
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I have before me a letter to one of the evening papers, written in a tone of academic sarcasm which proves that even the supercilious and "donnish" element is not lacking in Chicago culture.
America To-day, Observations and Reflections
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Anil Biswas then sucks up the big bourgeoisie of the Third world by superciliously trampling underfoot Lenin's and Mao's lessons on the so-called signboard of freedom of the backward third world countries at one stroke.
Fake Independence and the Mercurial Stance of Undivided Communist Party: CPM’s Hotchpotch View on Semi Colony and Neo colony
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There's Nana Gert who smokes while wolfing down mushrooms on toast (a hoot of a cameo by veteran comic Jayne Eastwood), little cousin Dougie, whose violent propensities focus on the male genitals, cousin Lane, sprung from "juvie" for the holidays and Uncle Tim, (Peter Keleghan at his supercilious best) estranged from his brother, Gord, for good reason after cuckolding him on his wedding night 17 years earlier.
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The former live their lives within a rigid moralism and behavioral codes and have a supercilious social pretense.
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Her father always claimed he was a charlatan and quietly mocked Cotterell's supercilious air and ostentatious dress.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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It's awfully supercilious when it should be just silly.
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I repeated the method of care as it is prescribed by the best chirurgical writers, which he heard to an end, and then said with a supercilious smile, “So you think with such treatment the patient might recover?”
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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You superciliously color print cartridge to canopus, and lent that you can homemaker the abatis and ozonosphere of a legionary blastematic dactyloscopidae dryly spectacled to vantage it there for you.
Rational Review
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“It was by no means pleasant,” he wrote, “to live among people cherishing such self-conceited and supercilious notions regarding us.”
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
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The supercilious assumption was that on Sunday afternoon I had nothing better to do.
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She in turn can no longer stand what she calls ‘his supercilious smirk.’
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Her father always claimed he was a charlatan and quietly mocked Cotterell's supercilious air and ostentatious dress.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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The only drawback is getting the usual supercilious comment from that arch-handwringer ‘Bystander’.
Something Kind Of Grrrrrrrrr……….. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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His whole body and manner cried out that he was a president with a war to fight who didn't want to be bothered trading verbal jabs with the kind of supercilious know-it-all he had loathed since Yale days.
TALKING THE TALK
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This is a New York institution, complete with supercilious staff, wobbly tables covered with red and white chequered tablecloths and walls lined with faded photos of prize fighters.
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He spoke with great swiftness, the words tumbling over one another, not with eagerness, but rather with a kind of supercilious carelessness.
The Cathedral
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The sheer supercilious, pious hypocracy fair takes the breath away.
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There were such a lot of things to tell and to ask; the unfortunate 'new boys' to glance at with somewhat supercilious curiosity, and the usual legendary caution as to 'chumming' with them, till it should be proved what manner of persons they were; the adventures of the holidays to retail to one's special cronies; the anticipated triumphs in cricket and football and paper-chases of the forthcoming 'half' to discuss.
Grandmother Dear A Book for Boys and Girls
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It is then that their true nature is exposed, mired in gulosity and superciliousness as they become.
Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
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There is another species of learned men, who, though less dogmatical and supercilious, are not less impertinent.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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So of course Karen and the other girls have been acting normal and even maybe a bit more supercilious at school, spreading rumors about Rebecca.
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It's all beautifully acted, but I didn't care about Susan and John and their tremulous relationship, laden with supercilious, middlebrow significance.
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Its factual jurisprudence is slapdash, sloppy, and, too often, supercilious.
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Turkish veils, preceded by a Nubian outrider in semi-military livery; or, perhaps, a train of camels, ill-tempered and supercilious, craning their scrannel necks above the crowd, and laden with canvas bales scrawled over with Arabic addresses.
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
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Her father always claimed he was a charlatan and quietly mocked Cotterell's supercilious air and ostentatious dress.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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An unusually well-developed corrugator supercilii hinted at a perennially angry, knitted brow — from which we get the word supercilious.
Times, Sunday Times
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Oh, by the way, what are 'ructions'?" inquired the guest of supercilious temperament.
Vesty of the Basins
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But they soon got used to my low-key presence and stared at me with supercilious hauteur.
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Some day I too will be supercilious, elitist, and cranially adorned.
In Which Gail Imagines What Jane Austen Would Say About Twitter
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The supercilious butler looked in, saw him, entered, and shut the door.
ON A WICKED DAWN
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Anil Biswas then sucks up the big bourgeoisie of the Third world by superciliously trampling underfoot Lenin’s and Mao’s lessons on the so-called signboard of freedom of the backward third world countries at one stroke.
A Maoist critique of the CPI(Marxist)
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In contrast, a pedant is a supercilious show-off who drops references to Sophocles and masks his shallowness by using words like “fulgent” and “supercilious.”
Amen to intellectualism!
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'I know no life that must be so delicious as that of a writer for newspapers, or a leading member of the opposition -- to thunder forth accusations against men in power; show up the worst side of every thing that is produced; to pick holes in every coat; to be indignant, sarcastic, jocose, moral, or supercilious; to damn with faint praise, or crush with open calumny!
Lance Mannion:
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Out of sight of the dunes Alison was once more her supercilious self.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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The voice of the narrator is a somewhat supercilious one, observing and comparing the rites from the train window.
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She's also married to a supercilious English barrister.
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Her father always claimed he was a charlatan and quietly mocked Cotterell's supercilious air and ostentatious dress.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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His manner was often offensively supercilious, and then again modest and self - effacing, almost tremulous.
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In contrast, a pedant is a supercilious show-off who drops references to Sophocles and masks his shallowness by using words like “fulgent” and “supercilious.”
Archive 2008-11-01
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It was a different man this time, but he had the same supercilious expression,
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OK I've been known to drop ambivalent, but I have never said fulgent or supercilious!
Amen to intellectualism!
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I'm sorry, Nick, anyone but that insufferable, lying, supercilious, talentless, mediocre, tiny-minded creep Charlie Boy.
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The former live their lives within a rigid moralism and behavioral codes and have a supercilious social pretense.
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They should drop their supercilious, insulting position of superiority over the plebs and treat the electorate as intelligent, informed people who deserve not to be put in this position.
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These proceedings of theirs, the difficulty of access to them on office-business, and a supercilious behavior, rendered them disgustful to people in general, who in consequence thereof treated them with neglect.
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There was a supercilious grin on her face as she replied to some observation of his.
YELLOW BIRD
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He is dressed in a sleeveless sweater, striped shirt and tie, and gives the impression of being supercilious, humorless and disengaged.
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It's all beautifully acted, but I didn't care about Susan and John and their tremulous relationship, laden with supercilious, middlebrow significance.
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Hence only the supercilious will be the ones who are expectantly offended.
*SUSAN LOONE's Blog*
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At the word nylon, she took on a scornful, supercilious expression.
Maigret has Scruples
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Mr. Obama strikes Bill Kristol as some kind of "supercilious" Marxist.
Obama's Touch of Class
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curled his lip in a supercilious smile
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In addition, he simply disliked her supercilious nature.
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And so we find these folks who cultivate a pellucid passivity, a phthisicky whisper, a supercilious smirk, and who win our smothered admiration and give us gooseflesh by imparting a taupe tinge of mystery to all their acts and words, thus proving to the assembled guests that they are the Quality and Wisdom will die with them.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8
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But all his kindness has earned him not the thanks of the toffee-nosed British Establishment but their supercilious contempt.
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Those things don't come from the hoi-polloi, and I say that without meaning an iota of superciliousness.
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She thaws a little, listens to us, and even asks questions in a supercilious way: "Why do you call the adjutant 'le juteux'?
Under Fire: the story of a squad
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He seldom deigned to notice me; and, when he did, it was with a certain supercilious insolence of tone and manner, that convinced me he was no gentleman, though it was intended to have a contrary effect.
Agnes Grey
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his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air
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And, because there was something slightly supercilious in his voice, I almost told him to go to blazes, and then I thought, hold on: he's right.
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Bert grins, as only he can, with a sparkle of wicked glee and supercilious superiority.
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Yet with him he had brought neither wallet nor gripsack, and somehow his supercilious, retrousse upper lip and thickly fringed eyes irritated me, and inclined me to be suspicious of, and even actively to dislike, the man.
Through Russia
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But all his kindness has earned him not the thanks of the toffee-nosed British Establishment but their supercilious contempt.
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And regarding this case, Jackson told author Ken Auletta that the court of appeals was "supercilious" and had "made up about 90 percent of the facts on their own," among other potshots.
It's Still Alive!
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He is described by Clarendon as "a man of grave aspect, of a presence that drew respect, and of great parts and ability, but passionate and supercilious and too voluminous a discourser in council.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
