'Detective Cross,' he said in his usual supercilious manner.

Twisp shook his head to clear it of Flattery, of the man's grating, nasal voice and supercilious manner.

Instead, he merely raised an eyebrow in his most supercilious manner.

She had enjoyed the Englishman's consternation, even his revulsion at her husband's supercilious manner.

"Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said Strange.

His supercilious manner was more than I could endure.

So is Mr. Kerry's sometimes supercilious manner, and his habit of exacerbating a small thing with an answer that is not quite straight.

When the film is at its most agonizingly obvious, the actors are nonetheless encouraged to create emphasis by adopting a supercilious, world-weary manner laden with the heaviest sarcasm.

Al Gore may have been a better debater than George W. Bush, but the audience was put off by his supercilious manner.

He had a supercilious manner and a tired drawl.