Supercilious

supercilious
    adj 1: having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of
           those one views as unworthy; "some economists are
           disdainful of their colleagues in other social
           disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners
           were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very
           sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my
           clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood
           than usual"- W.L.Shirer [syn: {disdainful}, {haughty},
           {imperious}, {lordly}, {overbearing}, {prideful},
           {sniffy}, {supercilious}, {swaggering}]
    2: expressive of contempt; "curled his lip in a supercilious
       smile"; "spoke in a sneering jeering manner"; "makes many a
       sharp comparison but never a mean or snide one" [syn:
       {supercilious}, {sneering}, {snide}]
    

Supercilious \Su`per*cil"i*ous\, a. [L. superciliosus, fr.
   supercilium an eyebrow, pride; super over, + cilium an
   eyelid; probably akin to celare to conceal. Cf. {Conceal}.]
   Lofty with pride; haughty; dictatorial; overbearing;
   arrogant; as, a supercilious officer; asupercilious air;
   supercilious behavior. -- {Su`per*cil"i*ous*ly}, adv. --
   {Su`per*cil"i*ous*ness}, n.
   [1913 Webster]
    

40 Moby Thesaurus words for "supercilious":
      arrogant, cavalier, clannish, cliquish, condescending,
      contemptuous, contumelious, disdainful, dismissive, exclusive,
      haughty, high and mighty, high-and-mighty, highfalutin,
      hoity-toity, insolent, la-di-da, lofty, lordly, overbearing,
      patronizing, pompous, pretentious, scornful, sneering, sniffy,
      snippy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, snuffy, stuck-up, stuffy,
      superior, toploftical, toplofty, uppish, uppity, withering