Read full poem →Adieu red coats, and redder faces!
Adieu the supercilious air
Of all that strut _en militaire_![22] 20
Dictionary Entry
Arrogantly superior; showing contemptuous indifference; haughty.
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Common Phrases
. supercilioussmile superciliousair superciliouscontempt superciliousattitude superciliousmanner supercilious
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Poetry examples for “supercilious”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →(Old, commonplace, and rusty saws,
The rich, the gay, the supercilious, smiled at long,
Now, piercing to the marrow in my bones,
Read full poem →All the menacing might of the globe uprisen around me,
Yet there with my soul I fed, I fed content, supercilious.