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- SUPERCILIOUS Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
Arrogant and disdainful types tend to raise an eyebrow at anything they consider beneath them The original supercilious crowd must have shown that raised-eyebrow look often, because the adjective supercilious derives from "supercilium," Latin for eyebrow
- SUPERCILIOUS | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
SUPERCILIOUS definition: 1 behaving as if you are better than other people, and that their opinions, beliefs, or ideas are… Learn more
- SUPERCILIOUS Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
Supercilious definition: haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression See examples of SUPERCILIOUS used in a sentence
- supercilious, adj. n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English . . .
There are five meanings listed in OED's entry for the word supercilious, three of which are labelled obsolete See ‘Meaning use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence
- supercilious adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage . . .
Definition of supercilious adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
- Supercilious - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com
Supercilious people think very highly of themselves, more highly than of others 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've reached the very heights of their profession
- Supercilious - definition of supercilious by The Free Dictionary
The derived Latin adjective superciliōsus meant "full of stern or disapproving looks, censorious, haughty, disdainful," as it has since it entered English as supercilious in the 1500s
- supercilious - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
supercilious (comparative more supercilious, superlative most supercilious) Arrogantly superior; showing contemptuous indifference; haughty synonym quotations
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