supercilious

  • (s) 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
    haughty, imperious, prideful, sniffy, swaggering, disdainful, lordly, overbearing,
  • (s) 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
    sneering, snide,

Synonyms

haughty imperious prideful sniffy swaggering disdainful lordly overbearing sneering snide

Words of close approximity

superciliously superciliousness