superciliousnesskibir

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Definition von superciliousnesskibir im Türkisch Englisch wörterbuch

supercilious

{a} haughty, arbitrary, dictatorial

exhibiting haughty and careless contempt

expressive of contempt; "curled his lip in a supercilious smile"; "spoke in a sneering jeering manner"; "makes many a sharp comparison but never a mean or snide one"

Lofty with pride; haughty; dictatorial; overbearing; arrogant; as, a supercilious officer; asupercilious air; supercilious behavior

Arrogantly superior; showing contemptuous indifference; haughty

{s} conceited, haughty, boastful, arrogant, disdainful, contemptuous

having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "shaggy supercilious camels"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W L Shirer

disapproval If you say that someone is supercilious, you disapprove of them because they behave in a way that shows they think they are better than other people. His manner is supercilious and arrogant = disdainful. behaving as if you think that other people are less important than you - used to show disapproval = self-important (superciliosus, from supercilium )

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