superciliousness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From supercilious + -ness
Noun[edit]
superciliousness (uncountable)
- The state or quality of being supercilious.
- 1911, G. K. Chesterton, “The Secret Garden”, in 'The Innocence of Father Brown':
- He saw Dr. Simon, a typical French scientist, with glasses, a pointed brown beard, and a forehead barred with those parallel wrinkles which are the penalty of superciliousness, since they come through constantly elevating the eyebrows.