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“So your supercillious smug '' joke '' twitterings falls flat. logdon”
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
“Both Bush and Hillary have to be scripted because there true character is oftputting, supercillious and insufferably arrogant.”
“P superior: - a. higher in position or rank; being above or beyond the influence of; too dignified to be affected by; showing a consciousness of being better than others; supercillious; snobbish.”
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“Was there ever such a vainglorious supercillious man as this ?”
“Is Nic Boles the conceited and supercillious old Etonian everyone who has ever met him reports him to be?”
“All that's there now is a downlaodable poster, which is pretty keen, except for this supercillious bit of legal crapola you have to click through to get at it.”
Boing Boing: September 22, 2002 - September 28, 2002 Archives
““Pittachus” in the Aurora called the President “Saint Washington,” a man distinguished only by “the seclusion of a monk and the supercillious sic distance of a tyrant”; another mocked him with the offer of a crown.”
“When the sources of information are confined to a few, it may have a tendency to introduce into society an order of men, who, valuing themselves upon their superior acquirements, are too apt to look upon those, who have been less fortunate, with a degree of supercillious contempt.”
The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. I
“All diversions such as marching and circle games struck him as pleasant enough, but childish, and if participated in at all, to be gone through with in an absent-minded and supercillious manner.”
“She had the right to a good many privileges that under some circumstances she would have claimed, but the supercillious nod or the lifting of the brows cut like a knife.”
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dbalke pompous, arrogant, obtuse, obstructive and totally clueless Sep 30, 2009