Consequently they endure society at home, with a smile, and a shrug, and a graceful superciliousness, which is very engaging. From Wordnik.com. [The Potiphar Papers] Reference
A graceful superciliousness, which is very engaging. From Wordnik.com. [The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.)] Reference
Kolya, turning to him with haughty superciliousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
What then is this superciliousness of the interpreter?. From Wordnik.com. [The Discourses of Epictetus] Reference
He is somebody who can't suppress his superciliousness. From Wordnik.com. [Thursday, November 30, 2006] Reference
There is a little superciliousness even in my forbearance. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Sure, the political correctness and superciliousness grate. From Wordnik.com. [Shhh. Maybe It Will Go Away] Reference
Could it be a form of European superciliousness or hidden racism?. From Wordnik.com. [No war crimes in Darfur] Reference
Sashland, superciliousness like yours deserves everything it gets. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth!] Reference
Elsewhere he describes me as speaking with great superciliousness. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Response - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The sheer superciliousness must have made your whole marvellous day. From Wordnik.com. [It's My Party] Reference
Wealth, beauty, age nor rank won servility or superciliousness from him. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
That superciliousness was sufficient to stimulate the merchant's tongue. From Wordnik.com. [Tar Aiym Krang]
But a faint touch of superciliousness in his tone showed he meant what he had said. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladybird] Reference
Beneath the section chief's look of weary superciliousness there was a note of anxiety. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Haystack] Reference
(‘Now, why should he ask that, with sudden superciliousness?’ thought Mr. Crisparkle.). From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of Edwin Drood] Reference
He gave me a long concentrating stare, but for once without the habitual superciliousness. From Wordnik.com. [Bonecrack]
Somehow the quiet Humbird, and Sloane, with his impatient superciliousness, were the centre. From Wordnik.com. [This Side of Paradise] Reference
It is then that their true nature is exposed, mired in gulosity and superciliousness as they become. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
I acknowledged that if any superciliousness existed in Mizora while I was there, I must have had it. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
Look closer, and beneath that look of good-humor you will find a little something of superciliousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
“Your father died before you were born,” Waleran said, with just a hint of his old superciliousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
Life had not taught her domination — superciliousness of grace, which is the lordly power of some women. From Wordnik.com. [Sister Carrie] Reference
Mind you, quite often it is the British mandarins in their euro-guise that enunciate this superciliousness. From Wordnik.com. [Who cannot understand whom?] Reference
The group once again exhibits the same high-standard, crafty superciliousness that marred 'Outlandos d'Amour'. From Wordnik.com. [Reggatta de Blanc] Reference
He went towards this grotesque object to see it better, half-closing his eyes with exceeding superciliousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic Skin] Reference
You were expected to endure deadly insults; the superciliousness you had to put up with was something abominable. From Wordnik.com. [Two Poets] Reference
His look at Jury was somewhat apprehensive, although he tried to hide it beneath this overlay of superciliousness. From Wordnik.com. [the dirty duck]
His little eyes glittered like mica discs -- with curiosity -- though he tried to keep up a bit of superciliousness. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Darkness] Reference
Its pretentiousness, suggesting superciliousness and arrogance, contrasts nicely with the actual reality of the slave. From Wordnik.com. [Kajira Of Gor]
"Inglis milor," cried Girasole, who was stung to the quick by a certain indescribable yet most irritating superciliousness in. From Wordnik.com. [The American Baron] Reference
I never heard anything that sounded like arrogance or superciliousness from him, and he has uniformly treated me with kindness. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times] Reference
"I was wounded," the colonel said, the superciliousness gone and a strange element in his voice above the alcohol there earlier. From Wordnik.com. [Mercenary] Reference
Want of punctuality seems to proceed either from pride and superciliousness, or from some infirmity, some weakness of character. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew] Reference
To affect to be offended with such an application, and to meet it with superciliousness and insolence, is injustice carried to its height. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew] Reference
Some men seem to think it beneath them, and a mark of littleness of mind, to wish or to try to please any body, and wrap themselves up in a cold superciliousness. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew] Reference
A suggestion of pertness in her beady eyes, and a certain superciliousness of bearing were mingled with a coquetry not displeasing to one who surveyed her from the human height. From Wordnik.com. [Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
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