Mrs. Sherbet shot me a supercilious look.
"He wore a supercilious look, scrutinizing us, and then looking down and taking notes," she recalled.
From deep within this conflagration of tony, occasionally insightful, arch, pompous, mournful, supercilious, generous, salivating verbalism, the single consistent sound to emerge is a howl of revulsion.
The graphic sexual encounters were so magnificent, The Guardian wrote, that "they make the sex in famous movies like, say, 'Last Tango in Paris,' look supercilious and dated".
Use good manners in any case and do not act like a "know-it-all", as it will just make you look supercilious and egotistic.
At the top of my own inventory I would include the silent cooking of an omelette at daybreak that concludes Big Night (1996); the expression of astonishment on the face of the supercilious restaurant critic as he takes his first bite of the title dish in Ratatouille (2007); and the ecstatic ingestion of an entire meal by a gathering of nuns in Babette's Feast (1987).
"Supercilious" and — really?
Boot supercilious club officials, perhaps?
A rich, supercilious mystery man.
Then, perhaps, you graduate to supercilious or, worse, earnest snobbery.
Mainwaring was brittle, and Wilson was supercilious.
