supercilious
傲慢无礼,傲慢无礼的,傲慢的,目空一切
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- : haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.
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Too often, it's just our supercilious attitude to this thing called relief.
To point that out, of course, will only strengthen her sense of being persecuted by supercilious elites.
Gore comes off as a supercilious grandstander who gets swatted away dismissively by the brilliant Bill Clinton.
He always kept within certain carefully laid bounds of supercilious politeness.
She glanced uneasily at Gwynne and fancied she could hear him slam the lid of his breeding upon a supercilious sputter.
The instant lift of Florimond's eyebrows was full of insolent, supercilious disdain.
Would it not have been possible to live in retirement without drawing upon himself the accusation of supercilious hauteur?
English notions of what is becoming don't hold good here; you can't stop a man like Wilkinson with a supercilious look.