supercilious

英 [ˌsuːpəˈsɪliəs]

美 [ˌsuːpərˈsɪliəs]

adj.  傲慢的; 高傲的

GRE

BNC.23595 / COCA.32081

牛津词典

adj.

• 傲慢的；高傲的
  behaving towards other people as if you think you are better than they are

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 自高自大的;目空一切的;傲慢的
  If you say that someone issupercilious, you disapprove of them because they behave in a way that shows they think they are better than other people.
  1. His manner is supercilious and arrogant...
     他非常傲慢自大。
  2. Her eyebrows were arched in supercilious surprise.
     大吃一惊的她高傲地扬起了眉毛。

双语例句

• And my friends had advise me don't be so stick to one's old way of doing things and supercilious.
  而我的朋友也曾告诫我，别那么高调和我行我素之类的话。
• His manner is supercilious and arrogant
  他非常傲慢自大。
• This supercilious attitude relegates me to the level of the commonplace.
  这种目空一切的心态把我归入大路货的档次。
• Now he was a sturdy straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner.
  现在他是三十多岁的人了，身体健壮，头发稻草色，嘴边略带狠相，举止高傲。
• New York must be filled with such bowers, or the beautiful, insolent, supercilious creatures could not be.
  纽约一定到处都有这样的闺房，否则哪来那么些美丽、傲慢、目空一切的佳人。
• Teachers sometimes show cruelty by being supercilious and sarcastic.
  有时候教师因对学生盛气凌人挖苦讽刺而显得残酷无情。
• Her eyebrows were arched in supercilious surprise.
  大吃一惊的她高傲地扬起了眉毛。
• His carriage was bold and somewhat supercilious, his step easy and free, his manner daring and unconstrained.
  他仪表大方，甚至略带傲慢，步履潇酒，神态从容。
• The tone of all this is unrelievedly smug and supercilious, and thus makes for very unpleasant reading.
  全文的语调满是自鸣得意和目空一切，这就使人读起来很不舒服。
• Yet there was nothing sarcastic or supercilious in the way Ames spoke.
  可是艾姆斯说话的口气没有丝毫的嘲讽或傲慢的味道。