Citations:supercilious
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English citations of supercilious
Adjective
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- 1787, Alexander Hamilton, Henry Dawson's edition The Federalist, No 66
- He has been seated on a throne surrounded with minions and mistresses, giving audience to the Envoys of foreign potentates, in all the supercilious pomp of majesty.
- 1820, Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 24
- These reflections had tamed and brought down to a pitch of sounder judgment a temper, which, under other circumstances, might have waxed haughty, supercilious, and obstinate.