supercilious

• Her round little face with its dots for features looked so sour and supercilious, as she passed the savior with averted eyes on her way out of the dining-room,--the children were withdrawing now,--that he could not resist putting out a hand to stop her You will have me, Sissy?" —  The Madigans
• We may be supercilious, and disdainful in our estimate of men. —  Friendship
• His bearing was for the first and only time in his life supercilious, and his sermons were a vicious attack on the doctrines most dear to the best of his people. —  Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers
• I suppose that in describing the tone of La Rochefoucauld as "delicate" La Bruyиre really meant supercilious, and deprecated any idea that he, the typical bourgeois, should seem to lay down the law like the architype of intellectual aristocracy. —  Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France
• Commodore Decatur's widow sent a mourning token, and the Honorable William Wirt brought Mr. Robert Smith, once the secretary of state at Washington These and others, looking at Meshach Milburn a little oddly, found him, on acquaintance, a man of sense; but the McLanes who called were either supercilious or studiously avoided the groom An invitation came from Arlington House to Vesta, to bring Mr. Milburn there; and, as they proceeded out the Washington road in a private carriage, they observed Mr. Ross Winans's friction-wheel car, with nearly forty people in it, making its trial trip behind a horse at a gallop. —  The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times

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