supercilious
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Supercilious when he should be grave, ridiculous when he should be dignified, self-important when he should be reflective, Don Lemon still hasn’t mastered the art of not making a live report all about him.
From Salon • Nov. 25, 2014
Supercilious bureaucrats and functionaries have control over him.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 11, 2013
It's a terrific likeness. sandcrane Supercilious expression.....not good....and definitely not Kate!
From Time • Jan. 11, 2013
Supercilious esthetes and professional scoffers being alike discredited, the most promising movement in art criticism is toward a simpler, less pretentious and closer examination of the facts of art.
From Time Magazine Archive
Supercilious, sū-pėr-sil′i-us, adj. lofty with pride: disdainful: dictatorial: overbearing.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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