Words Like SUPERCILIOUS

We have put together a list of words that are similar to SUPERCILIOUS.

7 Alternative Words Similar to supercilious

1 Disdainful Adjective      Synonym Words Like Disdainful
2 Haughty Adjective      Synonym Words Like Haughty
3 Lordly Adjective      Synonym Words Like Lordly
4 Prideful Adjective      Synonym Words Like Prideful
5 Sniffy Adjective      Synonym Words Like Sniffy
6 Swaggering Adjective      Synonym Words Like Swaggering
7 Proud Adjective      Similar Words Like Proud

9 examples of supercilious

1 a supercilious officer; asupercilious air; supercilious behavior.
2 a more swaggering mood than usual
3 very sniffy about breaches of etiquette
4 his lordly manners were offensive
5 haughty aristocrats
6 his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air
7 walked with a prideful swagger
8 makes many a sharp comparison but never a mean or snide one
9 spoke in a sneering jeering manner

8 definitions of supercilious

1 Lofty with pride; haughty; dictatorial; overbearing; arrogant
2 having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
3 expressive of contempt
4 Feeling or showing haughty disdain. See Synonyms at proud.
5 Lofty with pride; haughtily contemptuous; overbearing.
6 Manifesting haughtiness, or proceeding from it; overbearing; arrogant: as, a supercilious air; supercilious behavior.
7 Synonyms Disdainful, contemptuous, overweening, lordly, consequential. See arrogance.
8 Arrogantly superior; showing contemptuous indifference; haughty.
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