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Definition of Superciliously
1. Adverb. With a sneer; in an uncomplimentary sneering manner. "`I don't believe in these customs,' he said sneeringly"
Definition of Superciliously
1. Adverb. In a supercilious manner. ¹
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Definition of Superciliously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Superciliously
Literary usage of Superciliously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Political and Private Life of James Caulfield, Earl of by Francis Hardy (1812)
"When England rose to superior greatness and splendour, too many of those ministers
superciliously and ungraciously turned themselves from us; ..."
2. A Pilgrim's Reliquary by Thomas Henry White (1845)
"... whom Warburton superciliously or enviously calls " Fuller the Buffoon," hath
the following passage upon Painted Glass so quaintly moralized, ..."
3. Edvard Grieg by Henry Theophilus Finck (1906)
"To the musical amateur," writes one of them superciliously, " no contemporary
composer is better known than Grieg. Every school-girl plays his piano pieces ..."
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