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The Scarlet Pimpernel vocabulary
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supercilious
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synonyms: imperious, vainglorious, grandiloquent, overweening, high-toned, turgid, tumescent, fustian, orotund, orgulous, ~hauteur, thrasonical ???
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Definition:Lofty with pride; haughty; dictatorial; overbearing; arrogantNoah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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"Confound the brute!" said Sir Andrew, with native British wrath, as Brogard leant up against the table, smoking and looking down superciliously at these two SACRRRES ANGLAIS.
Baroness Emmuska Orczy. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)
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CECILY. [sweetly] Sugar?
GWENDOLEN. [superciliously] No, thank you. Sugar is not fashionable any more. [Cecily looks angrily at her, takes up the tongs and puts four lumps of sugar into the cup.]
Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
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While I spoke in supercilious accents, and looked at the room as if I had an oil well in my own backyard, my armpits were being pricked by millions of hot pointed needles.
Maya Angelou. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
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she looked over her shoulder, superciliously saying, "You are to come this way to-day," and took me to quite another part of the house.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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“How good! Really very good!” said Nicholas with some unintentional superciliousness, as if ashamed to confess that the sounds pleased him very much.
“Very good?” said Natasha reproachfully, noticing her brother’s tone. “Not ‘very good’ it’s simply delicious!”
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman . Simon & Schuster
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