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  • So your supercillious smug '' joke '' twitterings falls flat. logdon

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • Both Bush and Hillary have to be scripted because there true character is oftputting, supercillious and insufferably arrogant.

    Hillary Camp Planted Question At Campaign Stop 2009

  • Was there ever such a vainglorious supercillious man as this ?

    Tony Blair Bows Out Craving Approval 2007

  • Is Nic Boles the conceited and supercillious old Etonian everyone who has ever met him reports him to be?

    Musical Chairs in the Lobby 2007

  • 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

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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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  • pompous, arrogant, obtuse, obstructive and totally clueless

    September 30, 2009