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Supercilious

英式发音:[sup'sls;sju-] or [,sup'sls] 美式发音

    (adj.) expressive of contempt; 'curled his lip in a supercilious smile'; 'spoke in a sneering jeering manner'; 'makes many a sharp comparison but never a mean or snide one' .

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Supercilious

双语例句


  • A distant supercilious air makes a cold atmosphere about her, and there is nothing in her bearing, as there was before, to encourage openness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
  • With a most supercilious kind of glance, Hum, drawled out Murray, you've not the slightest chance. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
  • Ah,' said the red-haired man, surveying Mr. Weller from head to foot with a supercilious look. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
  • I can be very cool and very supercilious with Henry, he said. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
  • George's valet was looking on in a very supercilious manner at Mr. Clapp in his shirt-sleeves, watering his rose-bushes. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
  • You are the real devil who won't let life exiSt.' She looked at him with a long, slow look, malevolent, supercilious. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
  • For, though elated by his rank, it did not render him supercilious; on the contrary, he was all attention to everybody. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.

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