OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 15337

supercilious

/ˌsuː.pəˈsɪ.li.əs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
altivo
Arrogantly superior; showing contemptuous indifference; haughty.
"I've tried to be a good man, sir, and do my duty honest, and if it wasn't for the supercilus^([sic]) kind of way in which father carried on last night - a sort of sniffing at me a…
Now he was a sturdy, straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner.
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