Thesaurus / supercilious
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He always kept within certain carefully laid bounds of supercilious politeness.
THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYDShe glanced uneasily at Gwynne and fancied she could hear him slam the lid of his breeding upon a supercilious sputter.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONThe instant lift of Florimond's eyebrows was full of insolent, supercilious disdain.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIWould it not have been possible to live in retirement without drawing upon himself the accusation of supercilious hauteur?
FREDERICK CHOPIN AS A MAN AND MUSICIANFREDERICK NIECKSEnglish notions of what is becoming don't hold good here; you can't stop a man like Wilkinson with a supercilious look.
THE GIRL FROM KELLER'SHAROLD BINDLOSSMoreover, his supercilious manners had not helped to endear him since his arrival.
THE HIGHGRADERWILLIAM MACLEOD RAINEThe broker glanced at the contents of the box with a supercilious smile.
LEGENDS AND TALESBRET HARTEAs a single instance, I might select the supercilious condescension with which he invariably treats his friends the actors.
THE MEMOIRS OF COUNT CARLO GOZZI; VOLUME THE FIRSTCOUNT CARLO GOZZICompared with the sordid men around her, with whom he would be an object of supercilious contempt, he seemed like a demigod.
SEVENOAKSJ. G. HOLLANDMay I come in through the window, or shall I have myself announced by a supercilious flunkey?
THE CIRCLEW. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWORDS RELATED TO SUPERCILIOUS
- aloof
- apathetic
- blasé
- callous
- cold
- cool
- detached
- diffident
- disinterested
- dispassionate
- distant
- equitable
- haughty
- heartless
- heedless
- highbrow
- impartial
- impervious
- inattentive
- listless
- neutral
- nonchalant
- nonpartisan
- objective
- passionless
- phlegmatic
- regardless
- scornful
- silent
- stoical
- supercilious
- superior
- unaroused
- unbiased
- uncaring
- uncommunicative
- unconcerned
- unemotional
- unimpressed
- uninvolved
- unmoved
- unprejudiced
- unresponsive
- unsocial
- unsympathetic
- ascendant
- autocratic
- bossy
- cavalier
- cocky
- despotic
- dictatorial
- disdainful
- dogmatic
- egotistic
- haughty
- high-and-mighty
- high-handed
- imperative
- imperial
- imperious
- insolent
- magisterial
- officious
- oppressive
- overweening
- paramount
- peremptory
- predominant
- preponderant
- prevalent
- proud
- regnant
- sniffy
- snotty
- sovereign
- stuffy
- supercilious
- superior
- tyrannical
- uppity
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