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.
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