superˈciliously, adv.
[f. supercilious + -ly2.]
In a supercilious manner; with haughty contempt; disdainfully; † dictatorially, dogmatically, censoriously.
| a 1529 Skelton Replyc. Wks. 1843 I. 208 Whan they haue ones superciliusly caught A lytell ragge of rethorike. 1609 B. Jonson Sil. Wom. v. iii, Set your faces, and looke superciliously, while I present you. 1627 Donne Serm., Rev. iv. 8 (1640) 434 Some binde themselves exactly, rigidly, superciliously, yea superstitiously to the number of foure. 1647 Clarendon Hist. Reb. ii. §43 The Earl..who was a punctual man in point of Honour, received this Address superciliously enough. 1697 Bentley Phal. (1699) 198 He talks most superciliously, and with the greatest assurance. 1709 Swift Vindic. Bickerstaff Wks. 1755 II. i. 169 If men of publick spirit must be superciliously treated for their ingenious attempts, how will true useful knowledge be ever advanced? 1799 H. More Fem. Educ. (ed. 4) Introd. p. xviii, Let it not be suspected..that she superciliously erects herself into the impeccable censor of her sex and of the world. 1862 Lytton Str. Story i, The proprietors [of the shops] were decorously pompous,—the shopmen superciliously polite. 1865 M. E. Braddon Only a Clod xl, Harcourt smiled superciliously. |