Wordie: Supercilious: Comments

Comment by Milosrdenstvi, 14 days ago

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:54:52 +0000

See my interesting client,
Victim of a heartless wile!
See the traitor all defiant
Wear a supercilious smile!
Sweetly smiled my client on him,
Coyly woo'd and gently won him.

-W.S. Gilbert, 'Trial by Jury'

Comment by bilby, 15 days ago

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:23:02 +0000

gr g 6 Super Jet (USA)-Silvervain(Kenvain) FOALED :28/09/02

Comment by buckeyetuff, 7 months ago

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:24:51 +0000

See the second Deuce Bigalow movie. This word was used suitably.

Comment by padawan, 7 months ago

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:25:20 +0000

supercilious: disdainful.
superciliar: above the eyebrow.

Comment by SonofGroucho, 9 months ago

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:48:19 +0000

I can't hear this word without wanting to put the word "twit" after it!

Comment by reesetee, 11 months ago

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:39:16 +0000

What I love about this word is that it derives from the Latin for "eyebrow" (or more literally, "above the eyelid"). You can almost imagine the raised eyebrow of a supercilious person. :-)

Comment by oroboros, 11 months ago

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:05:59 +0000

"Holier than thou."

Comment by oroboros, 11 months ago

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:29:08 +0000

From MyFavoriteWord.com:

"I heard this word as a middle-schooler and assumed that it meant that something was supremely silly. I used it that way for years! But it means to look at someone with distain...which I'm sure many people did when I used it inappropriately! What a let-down to know that it means something so un-silly.

Kate McLean