supercilious

Adjective

• 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
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  sneering , snide , disdainful , haughty , imperious , lordly , overbearing , prideful , sniffy , swaggering