Usually means: Displaying arrogant superiority to others.
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  1. supercilious: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. supercilious: Merriam-Webster
  3. supercilious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. supercilious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. supercilious: Collins English Dictionary
  6. supercilious: Vocabulary.com
  7. Supercilious, supercilious: Wordnik
  8. supercilious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. supercilious: Wiktionary
  10. supercilious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. supercilious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. supercilious: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. supercilious: Dictionary.com
  14. supercilious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Supercilious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. supercilious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. supercilious: Rhymezone
  18. Supercilious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. supercilious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. supercilious: FreeDictionary.org
  21. supercilious: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. supercilious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. supercilious: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Supercilious: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. supercilious: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Supercilious: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. Supercilious: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. supercilious: A Word A Day

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adjective:  Arrogantly superior; showing contemptuous indifference; haughty.

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