The Word of the Day for Feb 11 is:

The Word of the Day for Feb 11 is:

supercilious \soo-per-SIH-lee-uss\ (adjective)

: coolly and patronizingly haughty

Example sentence:Brooke's snooty remarks and consistently supercilious attitude alienated virtually all of her colleagues.

Did you know?Arrogant and disdainful types tend to raise an eyebrow at anything they consider beneath them. The original supercilious crowd must have shown that raised-eyebrow look often, because the adjective "supercilious" derives from "supercilium," Latin for "eyebrow." (We plucked our adjective and its meaning from the Latin adjective "superciliosus.") The term has been used in English to describe the censoriously overbearing since the late 1500s, when playwright Ben Jonson used it thus: "There are, no doubt, a supercilious race in the world who will esteeme all office, done you in this kind, an injurie."

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.