Question

supercilious [This gardener] looks upon nature with the awareness of his superiority over it, and there is in his gaze something proprietary, peremptory, and even supercilious, as if, sitting in his greenhouse or pottering in the garden, he has learned about the vegetable kingdom something that no one else knows.

Accepted Answer

adj. Behaving as if one thinks oneself superior to others; haughty. “Spring,” Fifty-Two Stories, Anton Chekhov, tr. P&V, p. 92

Word	supercilious
Definition	adj. Behaving as if one thinks oneself superior to others; haughty.
Sentence	[This gardener] looks upon nature with the awareness of his superiority over it, and there is in his gaze something proprietary, peremptory, and even supercilious, as if, sitting in his greenhouse or pottering in the garden, he has learned about the vegetable kingdom something that no one else knows.
Source	“Spring,” Fifty-Two Stories, Anton Chekhov, tr. P&V, p. 92

Supercilious Adj Behaving Thinks Oneself Superior Haughty Gardener