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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

Perhaps the superciliousness of some of my peers was related to this underlying fear.

From The Guardian • Dec. 18, 2018

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

But he also carried himself with an air of superciliousness that did not befit the leader of a mass organization.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela