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superciliousness
1. " And she waved the waiter loftily away, and looked on with much superciliousness at the rest of us enjoying ourselves
2. Again, however, I was letting the opinions of a business partner unduly influence me as he insisted with professorial superciliousness and authority that “nobody can make money on the short side
3. A certain superciliousness of look, coolness of manner, nonchalance of tone, express fully their sentiments on the point, without committing them by any positive rudeness in word or deed
4. simple-mindedness which I detected in him, and the attachment he showed to our family, so that I made up my mind at last to forgive him his professional superciliousness, and, moreover, I taught him to wash his hands and clean his nails, even if he couldn't put on clean linen
5. I unconsciously reproached myself, indeed, with perfect sincerity, for a certain levity, and, as it were, superciliousness, with which it seemed to me, recalling it, I had listened to some parts of his " confession" the evening before
6. Let him open that book and begin reading it without grand words or superciliousness, without condescension to them, but gently and kindly, being glad that he is reading to them and that they are listening with attention, loving the words himself, only stopping from time to time to explain words that are not understood by the peasants
7. I may remark that hitherto she had treated me with absolute superciliousness, and, so far from answering my salutations, had always ignored them
8. Then, jesting at the "happy couple," with a shade of contempt and superciliousness she went away as well satisfied as before
9. "What huffiness! So we are in a savage temper?" he rapped out, still with the same offensive superciliousness
10. “How good! Really very good!” said Nicholas with some unintentional superciliousness, as if ashamed to confess that the sounds pleased him very much
11. Speaker, that the first clause of this paragraph has been read, with all the superciliousness of a grammarian's triumph