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# supercilious

«supercilious» in Mova's school dictionary: **proud and looking down on others, as if they were not…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more supercilious, most supercilious)

### meaning for a pupil

Supercilious means proud and looking down on others, as if they were not worth noticing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supercilious/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a character who sneers or looks down its nose at others in a tale

### examples

- The tall Rocket looked supercilious. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supercilious/#x1)
- Don't be so supercilious with your friends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supercilious/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «supercilious» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supercilious/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.