How To Use Supercilious In A Sentence
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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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The former live their lives within a rigid moralism and behavioral codes and have a supercilious social pretense.
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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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OK I've been known to drop ambivalent, but I have never said fulgent or supercilious!
Amen to intellectualism!
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It was a different man this time, but he had the same supercilious expression,
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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.”
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His manner was often offensively supercilious, and then again modest and self - effacing, almost tremulous.
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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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She's also married to a supercilious English barrister.
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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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Out of sight of the dunes Alison was once more her supercilious self.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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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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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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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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The supercilious butler looked in, saw him, entered, and shut the door.
ON A WICKED DAWN
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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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But they soon got used to my low-key presence and stared at me with supercilious hauteur.
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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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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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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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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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Its factual jurisprudence is slapdash, sloppy, and, too often, supercilious.
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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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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"
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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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But all his kindness has earned him not the thanks of the toffee-nosed British Establishment but their supercilious contempt.
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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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Bert grins, as only he can, with a sparkle of wicked glee and supercilious superiority.
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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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his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air
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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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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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Those things don't come from the hoi-polloi, and I say that without meaning an iota of superciliousness.
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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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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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In addition, he simply disliked her supercilious nature.
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curled his lip in a supercilious smile
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Mr. Obama strikes Bill Kristol as some kind of "supercilious" Marxist.
Obama's Touch of Class
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At the word nylon, she took on a scornful, supercilious expression.
Maigret has Scruples
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Hence only the supercilious will be the ones who are expectantly offended.
*SUSAN LOONE's Blog*
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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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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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There was a supercilious grin on her face as she replied to some observation of his.
YELLOW BIRD
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Thus the Rome official showed his arrogance superciliously.
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Yeah, I kinda get irritated with people that seem supercilious about not having a TV.
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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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The supercilious cheechako might designate them high,
Ballads of a Cheechako
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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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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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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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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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The shop assistant was very supercilious towards me when I asked for some help.
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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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And exposing himself to that censorious and supercilious gaze?
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The dress shop assistant was very supercilious.
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She in turn can no longer stand what she calls ‘his supercilious smirk.’
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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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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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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 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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The sheer supercilious, pious hypocracy fair takes the breath away.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 supercilious assumption was that on Sunday afternoon I had nothing better to do.
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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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Rational Review
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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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It's awfully supercilious when it should be just silly.
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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 former live their lives within a rigid moralism and behavioral codes and have a supercilious social pretense.
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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.
Thestar.com - Home Page
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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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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