supercilious

English - Turkish

Definition of supercilious in English Turkish dictionary: başkalarına tepeden bakan; kibirli; burnu büyük; özünü beğenmiş; mağrur; gurur; {s} kendini beğenmiş; {s} başkalarına tepeden bakan; (birinin/bir şeyin) ne kadar hor görüldüğünü belirten; superciliousnesskibir; superciliouslykibirle; {s} tepeden bakan
superciliousness: kibir
superciliously: kibirle

English - English

Definition of supercilious in English English dictionary: Arrogantly superior; showing contemptuous indifference; haughty; exhibiting haughty and careless contempt; {a} haughty, arbitrary, dictatorial; 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; {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 )
superciliously: {a} haughtily, contemptuously
superciliousness: {n} haughtiness, great pride
superciliously: sneeringly: with a sneer; in an uncomplimentary sneering manner; "`I don't believe in these customs,' he said sneeringly"
superciliously: In a supercilious manner
superciliously: haughtily, conceitedly, arrogantly, contemptuously
superciliousness: {i} arrogance, pride, haughtiness
superciliousness: The property of being supercilious
superciliousness: the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior