supercilious

• “He seldom deigned to notice me; and, when he did, it was with a certain supercilious insolence of tone and manner, that convinced me he was no gentleman, though it was intended to have a contrary effect.”

  Agnes Grey

• “Hence only the supercilious will be the ones who are expectantly offended.”

  *SUSAN LOONE's Blog*

• “I just didn't realize how moving it was and how radical it was to have that stated so clearly in the context of the kind of supercilious cultural milieu of indie rock.”

  The Washington Post: Be specific: Chad Clark, co-producer of the Dismemberment Plan's "Emergency & I," on how the album might have been very different

• “Mr. Obama strikes Bill Kristol as some kind of "supercilious" Marxist.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Obama's Touch of Class

• “And regarding this case, Jackson told author Ken Auletta that the court of appeals was "supercilious" and had "made up about 90 percent of the facts on their own," among other potshots.”

  Newsweek: It's Still Alive!

• “His whole body and manner cried out that he was a president with a war to fight who didn't want to be bothered trading verbal jabs with the kind of supercilious know-it-all he had loathed since Yale days.”

  Newsweek: TALKING THE TALK

• “He spoke with great swiftness, the words tumbling over one another, not with eagerness, but rather with a kind of supercilious carelessness.”

  The Cathedral

• “One man with exactly that tone came and said, with a kind of supercilious reverence, "Is it possible that I now flash my optics upon a prophet?”

  By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog

• “But given that the Foreign Office is desperately apologising and the Vatican is now thinking of calling off the visit altogether, to call this a 'sense of humour failure' would seem to reflect precisely the kind of supercilious Foreign Office cynicism revealed by the document itself.”

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• “That kind of supercilious contempt is why the Democrats keep losing.”

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