supercilious

Example Sentences

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Absent context, hand gestures perform a supercilious pantomime.

From Los Angeles Times

It highlights the parts that are supercilious and not important to the dancing.

From New York Times

And the trustees who gleefully conspire in old age to gum up the keys of Petrie’s cherished typewriter seem unaltered from the supercilious, eager-to-humiliate childhood chums of long ago.

From Washington Post

A 1958 Cold War novel, “The Ugly American,” painted an unflattering portrait of the U.S. diplomatic corps as a team of loud, supercilious bunglers whose failures aided the rise of communism in Southeast Asia.

From Washington Post

Barr always has an arrogant, supercilious attitude, whether he's facing Congress or members of the media.

From Salon