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• n  the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior

• In place of truth-telling, he has substituted superciliousness and spite.
• Stung by Brent's superciliousness toward actresses, she takes him to see one of her pictures in a village cinema, makes an enthusiastic personal appearance before she realizes .
• Using guile and seduction, they managed to get humans to feed them, thus preserving their superciliousness without going hungry.

• condescension
• disdainfulness

Quotes

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• Walt Whitman in Boston Globe (registration)
  Upon first meeting him, Walt Whitman called Thoreau "a very aggravated case of superciliousness."