"Supercilious" (soo-pur-SIL-ee-us) – from the Latin for "eyebrow" – means haughty or disdainfully arrogant.
Example (as used by Donald MacLeod in The Guardian): "Will I be interviewed by a supercilious [Oxford] don who will make fun of my accent?"
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