Citations:supercilious

Adjective

 * 1787, Alexander Hamilton, Henry Dawson's edition The Federalist, No 66
 * He has been seated on a throne surrounded with minions and mistresses, giving audience to the Envoys of foreign potentates, in all the supercilious pomp of majesty.


 * 1820, Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 24
 * 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.