a01891109
type | s |
lex_filenum | 00 |
def | having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy |
examples | some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines haughty aristocrats his lordly manners were offensive walked with a prideful swagger very sniffy about breaches of etiquette his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air a more swaggering mood than usual W.L.Shirer |
Outgoing links | |
Similar to | proud |
Derivationally related form | supercilious → superciliousness |
Derivationally related form | overbearing → overbearingness |
Derivationally related form | lordly → lordliness |
Derivationally related form | imperious → imperiousness |
Derivationally related form | haughty → haughtiness |
Derivationally related form | disdainful → disdainfulness |
Incoming links | |
Similar to | proud |
Derived from adjective | haughtily → haughty |
Derived from adjective | disdainfully → disdainful |
Derived from adjective | imperiously → imperious |
Derivationally related form | lordliness → lordly |
Derivationally related form | haughtiness → haughty |
Derivationally related form | disdainfulness → disdainful |
Derivationally related form | superciliousness → supercilious |
Derivationally related form | overbearingness → overbearing |
Derivationally related form | imperiousness → imperious |
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