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Meanings of supercilious in anglès
Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy.
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Examples for "haughty"
Examples for "haughty"
1
Supported by Assyria, the kings of Israel had become powerful and haughty.
2
Really the proud and the haughty have no luck in this world.
3
Although still haughty, his voice was clearly chagrined at his narrow escape.
4
The gentleman looked at him sideways and answered in a haughty manner:
5
But Sina was haughty; she slighted the sisters and treated them shamefully.
1
Occasionally, Mr. Clay was very imperious and displayed bad temper in debate.
2
The words were civil, but the tone was imperious in the extreme.
3
Hunger and fatigue were forgotten in the face of this imperious necessity.
4
This imperious girl belonged, of course, in the camp of the enemy.
5
He was neither haughty in his language, nor imperious in his demeanour.
1
Geoffrey said it gave him a cold, disdainful look and passed on.
2
I never knew an animal could be disdainful until I met Sasha.
3
This in a disdainful tone, and the white teeth clicked softly together.
4
The pursuing fighters came on, almost disdainful of their quarry's defensive efforts.
5
After that Nana pointed with disdainful action at the stands and continued:
1
The flatter the land grew, the broader did the lordly river become.
2
Wolfbrand, too, was seen in the strife bearing him in lordly wise.
3
But I like the fiction of a lordly ordering of the repast.
4
And on this wise would one of the lordly young men speak:
5
I'll make you rich in goods and give you the lordly robes.
1
An inquiry found police actions were overbearing and infringed on civil rights.
2
Parents should be overbearing either, but instead encourage children healthy online behaviour.
3
Many Latin American states see their northern neighbour as overbearing and exploitative.
4
There was also criticism of the overbearing corporate nature of the Games.
5
Many Latin American states see their northern neighbor as overbearing and exploitative.
1
We've seen this swaggering, falsely confident boor at least once too often.
2
However, this week the posturing ended up on swaggering, if unintended, show.
3
He was swaggering-toofriendly; not my idea of a gentleman at all.
4
The new movie is jammed with fireball explosions and swaggering criminal badasses.
5
Celtic seem intent on staggering rather than swaggering across the finishing line.
1
Young men, chests puffed out, swagger around the cars like prideful lions.
2
I feared that I'd been prideful and mistaken to make him leave.
3
Cab drivers hailed him as a likely fare, to his prideful content.
4
Lowry regarded it as nonsense at best, prideful and blasphemous at worst.
5
I didn't have it; at that point I was still prideful.
1
ARE, the smart set getting a bit sniffy this week about Barbados?
2
But his own party has been just as sniffy about vocational education.
3
It's on his 1972 Christmas album, which normally gets sniffy write ups.
4
Some charity chiefs are actually quite sniffy about our public efforts.
5
He seemed a bit sniffy about it; maybe something was lost in translation.
Usage of supercilious in anglès
1
Craig straightened in his seat; but not as before in attitude supercilious.
2
A moment later, he shoots me that supercilious look of the über-geeky.
3
Yet there was nothing sarcastic or supercilious in the way Ames spoke.
4
He was no longer the drawling, supercilious naval officer in resplendent uniform.
5
You can see him; and passed on with a somewhat supercilious air.
6
The young man turned a supercilious face on the boy, but answered:
7
Dillworth sat back in his chair at ease, with a supercilious smile.
8
But Captain Pinckney had recovered his supercilious ease with the significant demand.
9
They passed the telegrams from hand to hand, Norwood looking rather supercilious.
10
She took a deep breath and tried to maintain a supercilious dignity.
11
Still she smiled although a supercilious undertone tried to gain beastly dominion.
12
I hate his supercilious manner, his superior tone, and his unctuous bearing.
13
Lablache's supercilious tone of mockery drove him to the verge of madness.
14
The eyes, however, were still handsome, if supercilious, and her manners velvety.
15
The instant lift of Florimond's eyebrows was full of insolent, supercilious disdain.
16
He was in no mood to receive the congratulations of the supercilious Wachtmann.
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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