having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines; haughty aristocrats; his lordly manners were offensive; walked with a prideful swagger; very sniffy about breaches of etiquette; his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air; a more swaggering mood than usual- W.L.Shirer
[ Syn: disdainful , haughty , imperious , lordly , overbearing , prideful , sniffy , swaggering ]
expressive of contempt; curled his lip in a supercilious smile; spoke in a sneering jeering manner; makes many a sharp comparison but never a mean or snide one