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Tiresias is re-created by Ashlea Hayes as a Black woman who has long had to endure the benighted privilege and superciliousness of those who see less than they can possibly know.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2022

As an argumentative young congressional staffer, and before that as a conservative student columnist at Duke University, Miller developed a reputation for showmanship and superciliousness, viewed by peers as a hunger for recognition.

From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2019

I think what they saw, and what they recognized, was the character of Hermione herself, in all her intelligence, intensity and occasional superciliousness.

From New York Times • May 24, 2018

In the Independent, Geoffrey McNab writes a full-page appreciation of the "most mellifluous of actors" and declares: "No-one could do superciliousness or clammy nastiness like Rickman."

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2016

She was still not sure what to make of Professor Ezeka’s hoarse superciliousness, his certainty that he knew better than everyone else but chose to say little.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie