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How to use superciliousness in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word superciliousness? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Those things don't come from the hoi-polloi, and I say that without meaning an iota of superciliousness.
You can recognise the man in embryo, marked by strong subservience to those above and superciliousness to those below him.
They embraced the young woman and her child with heartfelt sisterly affection, without a trace of superciliousness.
Men want to take the joy out of wine, and replace it with snobbery, superciliousness, and another opportunity for sexism.
The superciliousness of the educated knows no end, and may even betray a final anxiety.
The superciliousness of some French-speaking inhabitants also has no limits.
There is nothing to be said in favour of deficient self-confidence or of populist self-laceration, nor indeed of superciliousness or arrogance.
His art could be confused for Pop, but it had none of the superciliousness and smugness that makes ninety-nine per cent of Pop so aggravating.
The world deserves better than testosterone on one side and superciliousness on the other.
Mr. Cheysson did not lack that French quality of honneur that some Americans interpret as superciliousness.
The superciliousness, self-absorption, and hostility to strangers among the Fuller's crew were highlighted, perhaps, by the beauty and drama of the place, but they were not unusual.
Is it a picture of bemused sophistication or of starchy superciliousness?
She's up close to the audience, and hints of superciliousness surface on her otherwise impassive face, an undercurrent of contempt that runs through the whole show.
They have smashed local economies, broken the backs of the farmers, forced their contractors to drive down wages, shrugged off complaints with a superciliousness born of the knowledge that they were unchallengeable.
Fred, a young nurse, stumbles into the stony scenery of the Swiss Jura, but especially into the superciliousness of a cold and authoritarian father.
They became known in Washington for a Brahmin superciliousness, tending to cruelty, which did not endear them to those whose non-Brahmin backgrounds made them sensitive to it, such as Lyndon Johnson.
Examples from Classical Literature
I acknowledged that if any superciliousness existed in Mizora while I was there, I must have had it.
There is nothing like the insolence and the superciliousness of people of that class.
A flush coloured Soames' pale cheeks, but his superciliousness did not waver.
He who does not conform to courtesy, mostly pays the penalty of his superciliousness.
She looked at him with a superciliousness not natural to her.
Then his superciliousness would, if not vanish, at least subside.
What does superciliousness imply according to its etymology?
There was no ostentation or superciliousness about Mrs. Washington.
I may remark that hitherto she had treated me with absolute superciliousness, and, so far from answering my salutations, had always ignored them.
Noted reed-drawers were they too, and looked round upon the other three with some superciliousness.
He was a cross-grained man, oppressed by a large family, and he resented the superciliousness which he fancied he saw in Philip.
Instead of reverence in the sanctuary, is there not superciliousness?
As he limped along the high street of Blackstable he looked with a tinge of superciliousness at the people he passed.
With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.
His immaculate fatigue-uniform, his calm superciliousness, his obvious air of belonging to a superior class, were galling to Trent beyond measure.
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