The man reacted to the breach of etiquette with a supercilious smile, which enraged the host. From LearnThat.org.
Curled his lip in a supercilious smile. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Hence only the supercilious will be the ones who are expectantly offended. From Wordnik.com. [*SUSAN LOONE's Blog*] Reference
Mr. Obama strikes Bill Kristol as some kind of "supercilious" Marxist. From Wordnik.com. [Obama's Touch of Class] Reference
That kind of supercilious contempt is why the Democrats keep losing. From Wordnik.com. [MetaFilter Projects] Reference
They are even more supercilious than the average diplomat. From Wordnik.com. [William Hague: yes we have spies round the world] Reference
We may be supercilious, and disdainful in our estimate of men. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
My gray thought him a supercilious snob, no doubt, and hated him. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
Honiton of its assemblies a certain supercilious species of snobby. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
He looked Rigby all over in a supercilious manner, but at length answered. From Wordnik.com. [The Dock Rats of New York] Reference
This aristocracy was never arrogant, never supercilious, never aggressive. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
It was after the election, after Buchanan's supercilious message to congress. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Like proud wealth and arrogant power, supercilious virtue also is detestable. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
The eyes, however, were still handsome, if supercilious, and her manners velvety. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
And any man or woman shall stand cool and supercilious before a million universes. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Hass: On Whitman's 'Song Of Myself'] Reference
Blacquaire was a man with an exasperatingly cold and supercilious fashion of speech. From Wordnik.com. [VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea] Reference
The proud and supercilious Pharisees sought "to entangle Him in His talk;" they charged. From Wordnik.com. [The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866] Reference
We are not to be supercilious, for the "touch" of pride is never the minister of healing. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
A supercilious editor once asked why on such an Association no farmer had been appointed. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
And then the fickle Hamlet says: "I loved you not," and with supercilious advice, exclaims. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference
That cheery, funny looking lady wiped the supercilious smile off Simon's face and wowed the world. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Tolins: The Boyle Next Door] Reference
He made a movement of impatience in his chair, then relapsed into his natural supercilious manner. From Wordnik.com. [Dwell Deep or Hilda Thorn's Life Story] Reference
Spade plays Segal's assistant, Dennis, a variant on his supercilious receptionist character from "SNL.". From Wordnik.com. [Spade In America] Reference
Evidently he was regarding his callers with more courtesy, for he had been a bit supercilious at first. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference
A tall girl, wearing expensive furs and having a supercilious air, came along with two or three companions. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves] Reference
I sit down at my place and after the supercilious Paco has intoned grace, smile around the table in expectation. From Wordnik.com. [How to Kill a Missionary] Reference
He will always be found to be pretentious in his own circle, and supercilious with relation to those in lower life. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
She's essentially playing the same self-involved, supercilious character, and playing her with hilariously evil zest. From Wordnik.com. [Revenge Of The Living Dead] Reference
"Congratulate you," he began, with his nasty, supercilious grin, which of late had been getting on my nerves severely. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
"Persh" had a girlfriend, a vivacious beauty named Kitty Hawks, who loved Kerry when he dropped his supercilious manner. From Wordnik.com. [THE SOLITARY SOLDIER] Reference
"This is what gives Turkey a 'Third World' reputation," he said in a tone that sounded both supercilious and oddly helpful. From Wordnik.com. [A Big Boatload of Ego] Reference
For kindness of this sort has great influence, and people yield more to those who seem to be sympathetic and not supercilious. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
They are, in fact, no more idle, thriftless, passionate, or supercilious, than Northern women would be in similar circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Reader: "Fenty's supercilious and secretive administrative style is precisely what accounts for his disconnect with D.C. voters.". From Wordnik.com. [DeMorning DeBonis: Sept. 7, 2010] Reference
Grecian women, to the state of popular feeling at Athens, and the administration of Athenian law, with supercilious indifference. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
Someone coming to this movie without having seen the first would have no sense of what makes brainy, supercilious Hermione special. From Wordnik.com. [Mild About 'Harry'] Reference
The Honourable Digby Lanyard, our first lieutenant, was a tall supercilious young man of five-and-twenty or so who wore an eyeglass. From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference
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