Word to the Wise: Supercilious

By Early To Rise | Sat, Jul 5, 2008 |

  

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"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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