Elevated vs Supercilious - What's the difference?
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(elevate)
Raised, particularly above ground level.
Increased, particularly above a normal level.
Of a higher rank or status.
Arrogantly superior; showing contemptuous indifference; haughty.
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Elevated is a related term of supercilious.
As adjectives the difference between elevated and supercilious
is that elevated is raised, particularly above ground level while supercilious is arrogantly superior; showing contemptuous indifference; haughty.As a verb elevated
is (elevate).elevated
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(en adjective)British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
- Buffeted by criticism of his policy on Europe, battered by rebellion in the ranks over his bill to legalize same-sex marriage and wounded by the perception that he is supercilious , contemptuous and out of touch with mainstream Conservatism, Mr. Cameron earlier this week took the highly unusual step of sending a mass e-mail (or, as he called it, “a personal note”) to his party’s grass-roots members.
- Now he was a sturdy, straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner.