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单词 supercilious
释义
supercilioussu‧per‧cil‧i‧ous /ˌsuːpəˈsɪliəs◂ $ -pər-/ adjective formal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINsupercilious
Origin:
1500-1600 Latin superciliosus, from supercilium ‘eyebrow, proud and unfriendly behavior’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a supercilious laugh
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Dress shop assistants grow supercilious, aware that they can uplift or slay us with a single comment.
  • He also had unusually heavy, drooping eyelids which could make him look comic or sinister, benevolent or supercilious.
  • His lazy, supercilious eyes, too, managed their affectation of aloofness without actually missing a trick.
  • The Lorrimores had arrived, each wearing yesterday's expression: pleasant, aloof, supercilious, sulky.
  • The Rover abruptly swung out and roared past, the passenger cop giving them a suspicious but mostly supercilious glare.
  • This viewpoint seems to have prevented him from doing more than cast a supercilious eye over the book.
  • You looked down your nose like some supercilious llama!
behaving as if you think that other people are less important than you – used to show disapproval SYN  self-important:  supercilious wine waiterssuperciliously adverbsuperciliousness noun [uncountable]
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