Examples from Collins dictionaries: His manner is supercilious and arrogant. Her eyebrows were arched in supercilious surprise.

Podcast. Examples: Lucinda's beauty attracted many suitors, but her supercilious manner eventually drove them all away. Did you know?

24 июл. 2020 г. · 37 sentence examples: 1. The dress shop assistant was very supercilious. 2. She gave a supercilious smile. 3. His manner is supercilious and ...

Even the woman's voice was unpleasant and supercilious, making her very unattractive to Jon. He liked people who were down to earth.

Examples of Supercilious in a sentence. 1. Lynda is so supercilious that she refuses to friend anyone outside her race.. 2. The supercilious, stuck-up ...

He may be a supercilious fellow, but it did him and his party no credit when he poked fun at such a serious subject. From the. Hansard archive.

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.

The supercilious woman looked down her nose at the beggar, and she thought to herself that it was beneath her to even acknowledge his presence.

If your sister tends to act snobby and superior, you can describe her as supercilious. You might expect Nobel Prize winners to be supercilious — after all, they ...