supercilious
soo-per-SIL-ee-usadjMeaning scornfully superior; looking down your nose at others
Memory hook SUPER-CILIUM: one raised EYEBROW. The snooty waiter raises one eyebrow at Pip’s muddy sneakers: “Hmm. Are you lost?” His look is supercilious.
The supercilious waiter raised an eyebrow at Pip’s muddy sneakers.
In context The critic’s review was supercilious: rather than discuss the play, he sneered at the small theater, its folding chairs and its “charmingly amateur” actors.
Similar snobbish, disdainful, superior, arrogant
Opposite humble, respectful, friendly
From Latin supercilium, “eyebrow” (super, above + cilium, eyelid): the raised eyebrow of scorn.