supercilious as an adjective: - 1
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supercilious
adjective
1 supercilious
Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy:
— His mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air.
synonyms: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, swaggering.
Roget 930:
contemptuous;
disdainful,
scornful;
withering,
contumelious,
supercilious,
cynical,
haughty,
bumptious,
cavalier;
derisive.
contemptible,
despicable;
pitiable;
pitiful
etc.
(unimportant)
643;
despised
etc.
v.;
downtrodden;
unenvied†.
unrespectable
(unworthy)
874.
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Roget 878:
dignified;
stately;
proud,
proud-crested;
lordly,
baronial;
lofty-minded;
highsouled,
high-minded,
high-mettled†,
high-handed,
high-plumed,
high-flown,
high-toned.
haughty lofty,
high,
mighty,
swollen,
puffed up,
flushed,
blown;
vainglorious;
purse-proud,
fine;
proud as a peacock,
proud as Lucifer;
bloated with pride.
supercilious,
disdainful,
bumptious,
magisterial,
imperious,
high and mighty,
overweening,
consequential;
arrogant
etc.
885;
unblushing
etc.
880.
stiff,
stiff-necked;
starch;
perked stuck-up;
in buckram,
strait-laced;
prim
etc.
(affected)
855.
on one's dignity,
on one's high horses,
on one's tight ropes,
on one's high ropes;
on stilts;
en grand seigneur [Fr.].
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Roget 885:
insolent,
haughty,
arrogant,
imperious,
magisterial,
dictatorial,
arbitrary;
high-handed,
high and mighty;
contumelious,
supercilious,
overbearing,
intolerant,
domineering,
overweening,
high-flown.
flippant,
pert,
fresh [U.S.],
cavalier,
saucy,
forward,
impertinent,
malapert.
precocious,
assuming,
would-be,
bumptious.
bluff;
brazen,
shameless,
aweless,
unblushing†,
unabashed;
brazen,
boldfaced-,
barefaced-,
brazen-faced;
dead to shame,
lost to shame.
impudent,
audacious,
presumptuous,
free and easy,
devil-may-care,
rollicking;
jaunty,
janty†;
roistering,
blustering,
hectoring,
swaggering,
vaporing;
thrasonic,
fire eating,
full of sound and fury"
[Macbeth].
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Roget 929:
disrespectful;
aweless,
irreverent;
disparaging
etc.
934;
insulting
etc.
v.;
supercilious,
contemptuous,
patronizing
etc.
(scornful)
930;
rude,
derisive,
sarcastic;
scurrile,
scurrilous;
contumelious.
unrespected†,
unworshiped†,
unenvied†,
unsaluted†;
unregarded†,
disregarded.
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Polish: wzgardliwy
2 supercilious
Expressive of contempt:
— Curled his lip in a supercilious smile.
synonyms: sneering, snide.
Polish: szyderczy, szydliwy, drwiący
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