Supercilious: Coolly and patronizingly haughty.
His expression was supercilious as he corrected her grammar.
Yeah. We know people like that. :)
The really fun part about this word (other than the way it sounds, of course) is the latin words it comes from.
Super--meaning 'above'
Cilium--meaning 'eyelid'
What's above our eyelids? Well I think most of us can lay claim to eye-brows (unless you've recently suffered a grilling accident due to the spurt of nice weather today).
The original latin word 'supercilium' meant eyebrow or haughtiness. Mostly prolly because supercilious people always seem to raise an eyebrow to demonstrate their superiority. Although that only really demonstrates superiority over facial muscles. Eh.
Supercilious! How many supercilious people do you know?
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