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So your supercillious smug '' joke '' twitterings falls flat. logdon
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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P superior: - a. higher in position or rank; being above or beyond the influence of; too dignified to be affected by; showing a consciousness of being better than others; supercillious; snobbish.
Memory Is The Guardian Of Everything « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007
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Both Bush and Hillary have to be scripted because there true character is oftputting, supercillious and insufferably arrogant.
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Hillary Camp Planted Question At Campaign Stop 2009
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Both Bush and Hillary have to be scripted because there true character is oftputting, supercillious and insufferably arrogant.
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Was there ever such a vainglorious supercillious man as this ?
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Is Nic Boles the conceited and supercillious old Etonian everyone who has ever met him reports him to be?
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All that's there now is a downlaodable poster, which is pretty keen, except for this supercillious bit of legal crapola you have to click through to get at it.
Boing Boing: September 22, 2002 - September 28, 2002 Archives 2002
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“Pittachus” in the Aurora called the President “Saint Washington,” a man distinguished only by “the seclusion of a monk and the supercillious sic distance of a tyrant”; another mocked him with the offer of a crown.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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“Pittachus” in the Aurora called the President “Saint Washington,” a man distinguished only by “the seclusion of a monk and the supercillious sic distance of a tyrant”; another mocked him with the offer of a crown.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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“Pittachus” in the Aurora called the President “Saint Washington,” a man distinguished only by “the seclusion of a monk and the supercillious sic distance of a tyrant”; another mocked him with the offer of a crown.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
dbalke commented on the word supercillious
pompous, arrogant, obtuse, obstructive and totally clueless
September 30, 2009