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Example sentences for "superciliously"

Lexicographically close words:
supercargoes; supercede; superceded; superciliary; supercilious; superciliousness; supereminent; supererogation; supererogatory; superessential
  1. She did not see his superciliously indifferent look; her dilated eyes stared straight before her into the dark recess from which Captain Prodder watched his sister's only child.

  2. Mr. Conyers threw away the stump of his cigar and stared superciliously at the "Softy.

  3. Before superciliously dismissing the high claims of British Bardism it would be well to consider not only the recent findings of Prof.

  4. But to me the divinities of antiquity are not mere dolls to be patted superciliously on the head and then remitted to the dustbin.

  5. Still less did he concern himself with the movements of his cousin, who once or twice passed him superciliously in her buggy on the road.

  6. This, after a first curious glance, the lawyer somewhat superciliously tossed aside.

  7. He looked at me somewhat superciliously from head to foot; and though I felt that I could have broken him through the middle over my knee as a boy breaks a stick, his cool scrutiny annoyed and discomposed me.

  8. But somehow the whole thing seemed to Lake to say, 'Do allow me this once to prescribe; do give your poor soul this one chance,' and Lake answered him superciliously and irreverently.

  9. Rachel turned and looked at herself in the glass, raising her chin and slightly pursing her lips, staring superciliously at her own image under half-lowered eyelids.

  10. The spirit laughed superciliously when she saw his action.

  11. Shusen smiled superciliously as he clapped his hands.

  12. How superciliously had he said it, how superciliously staring her down the while.

  13. As, long ago, he had superciliously stared her down when he had said to his secretary, "This cannot go on, Miss Montana.

  14. Having now superciliously sold out to these pilgrims, reserving only alcohol enough for its own consumption, Old Laramie was willing to let the world wag, and content to twiddle a man curl around a finger.

  15. The heavy half roar of the buffalo wolves, superciliously confident, echoed from the broken country.

  16. Maria said still more superciliously than before, 'Oh, yes, don't you remember?

  17. Maria said superciliously that she hated to see other people's umbrellas littering the house, which gave me a gleam of hope.

  18. The Greek's elbows were on the arm of the seat, and he held up before his breast a small red-leather-covered note-book which he superciliously tapped with a thin pencil.

  19. It could not be hid, and it looked down superciliously upon the little squiredom of Craig Ronald, as well as upon farms and cottages a many.

  20. Then he threw a stone at a rook which eyed him superciliously from the top of a turf dyke.

  21. Oh, how superciliously this fellow then looked at me!

  22. Two months before, they had marched out of the same gate in full uniform, proud and arrogant, looking down superciliously on the civilians, whose humble greetings they scarcely condescended to return.

  23. Mr. Moore, Rector of Cong, in one of his letters, complains that he was superciliously treated at the relief office in Dublin Castle, and finally told relief was only to be had in the workhouse.


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "superciliously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.