Tag: supercilious

• Adjective: Supercilious
  1. having or showing the proud and unpleasant attitude of people who think that they are better or more important than other people

• Synonyms:
  1. Arrogant
  2. Haughty
  3. Conceited
  4. Disdainful
  5. Overbearing
  6. Pompous
  7. Condescending
  8. Superior
  9. Patronizing
  10. Imperious
  11. Proud
  12. Snobbish
  13. Snobby
  14. Smug
  15. Scornful
  16. sneering
      

• Usage:

“He had changed since his New Haven years. Now he was a sturdy, straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner.”

• Encountered:

While reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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