Crossword-Solution: SUPERCILIOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Supercilious | a. | Lofty with pride; haughty; dictatorial; overbearing; arrogant; as, a supercilious officer; asupercilious air; supercilious behavior. |
We have 31 clues for the answer “SUPERCILIOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Stuck-up and acting in a superior manner | 3 answers |
| Patronising | 13 answers |
| assuming | 28 answers |
| Immodest | 29 answers |
| hubristic | 35 answers |
| Egotistical | 37 answers |
| vainglorious | 39 answers |
| fatheaded | 40 answers |
| narcissistic | 41 answers |
| lordly | 43 answers |
| Egotistic | 44 answers |
| Greater | 48 answers |
| Proud ___. | 49 answers |
| Domineering | 53 answers |
| overbearing | 54 answers |
| Boastful | 54 answers |
| Higher | 65 answers |
| Conceited | 66 answers |
| autocratic | 68 answers |
| dictatorial | 71 answers |
| Nonchalant | 72 answers |
| contentious | 72 answers |
| Haughty | 73 answers |
| Lofty | 73 answers |
| Vain | 75 answers |
| Disdain-ful | 77 answers |
| Pretentious | 77 answers |
| Irritable | 82 answers |
| BETTER ___ | 90 answers |
| BIG ___! | 98 answers |
| Grand | 102 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SUPERCILIOUS (5)
These reflections had tamed and brought down to a pitch of sounder judgment a temper, which, under other circumstances, might have waxed haughty, supercilious, and obstinate.
These servants gave themselves great airs, carrying their big cotton umbrellas as they had seen their mistresses carry their parasols, and haggling in supercilious fashion with the market men, their chins in the air.
While they talked of him he stood a little apart from the others, watching the noisy party with a good-humoured but faintly supercilious expression.
Even the supercilious ticket-seller at the San Francisco depot had unbent, and wished them good luck.
She felt like striking the woman full in her vain, supercilious, patronizing face--striking her and saying: "You smug liar! What if you had to wear such clothes on that fat, overfed body of yours! You'd realize then how filthy they are!" She gazed in horror at the Allen Street house.
Quotes with SUPERCILIOUS (3)
Many men remain spoiled boys that have never grown up. Women are prepared to raise them and take pain with patience, both as a condescendant contribution to supercilious compassion and as a proof of the eminence of their sense of worth. ("Prêt-à-penser" / "Ready-to-wear thinking")
- "Surely you have considered terrorist activity?" There was another pause. Then the spokesman said, in the quiet tones of someone who has had enough and who is going to quit after this and raise chickens somewhere, "Yes, I suppose we must. All we need to do is find some terrorists who are capable of taking an entire nuclear reactor out of its can while it's running and without anyone noticing. It weighs about a thousand tons and is forty feet high. So they'll be quite strong…
If it's any consolation, Princess, I think he's a supercilious, salacious sap.""You've been reading the dictionary!""My only hope of comprehending your conversation, my petite sesquipedalian.