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单词 superciliousness
释义 superˈciliousness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality or character of being supercilious; haughty contemptuousness.
a1656Hales Serm., Rom. xiv. 1 in Golden Rem. (1673) 29 It falls out oftentimes, that men offend..as much by familiarity, as by superciliousness and contempt.1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. i. (1703) 232 To surrender these privileges up to the superciliousness of every assuming or ignorant pretender.1751Johnson Rambler No. 87 ⁋9 He has inflamed the opposition..by arrogance and superciliousness.1851Gallenga Italy iv. 239 Excessive spruceness, ermine-like exclusiveness and fastidiousness,..but nothing like morgue and superciliousness.1881W. R. Smith O.T. in Jewish Ch. xi. 326 The superciliousness, with which traditionalists declare the labours of the critics to be visionary.
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