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What does supercilious mean?

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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.
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.
The voice of the narrator is a somewhat supercilious one, observing and comparing the rites from the train window.
Darcy, though attracted to the next sister, the lively and spirited Elizabeth, greatly offends her by his supercilious behaviour at a ball.
But all his kindness has earned him not the thanks of the toffee-nosed British Establishment but their supercilious contempt.
But they soon got used to my low-key presence and stared at me with supercilious hauteur.

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