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What does supercilious mean?

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He unfolded the step-ladder, silently with a supercilious gesture of his hand declined my request to help him, and climbed right up to the roof.
So of course Karen and the other girls have been acting normal and even maybe a bit more supercilious at school, spreading rumors about Rebecca.
But all his kindness has earned him not the thanks of the toffee-nosed British Establishment but their supercilious contempt.
The former live their lives within a rigid moralism and behavioral codes and have a supercilious social pretense.
I'm sorry, Nick, anyone but that insufferable, lying, supercilious, talentless, mediocre, tiny-minded creep Charlie Boy.
The voice of the narrator is a somewhat supercilious one, observing and comparing the rites from the train window.

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