Translation of "Supercilious" in German

The idea that an illiterate peasant country could produce a revolutionary people seemed utterly absurd to this “highly educated”, supercilious and extremely stupid leader of the bourgeois reformists.

Evidently, these people do not realize that their supercilious attitude towards Soviet trade is not an expression of Bolshevik views, but rather of the views of impoverished aristocrats who are full of ambition but lack ammunition.

This is nowhere more apparent than in the torturer’s conceited desire to extract a confessional ”truth” and his (sic) supercilious belief that his actions are beyond any judicial ”truth.”

They have no perception at all as to what God was doing with him, and thus they take this superior, perhaps supercilious attitude.

It does not require lack of eccentricities – it simply means that one meets everyone squarely, genuinely, and without what Ngak’chang Rinpoche has described as a ‘supercilious, aloof, politically correct, green, ergonomic, bio-degradable Buddhist agenda.’

After many years of hostility towards art under a rigid military regime, young artists began to make themselves seen and heard with unrestrained, even supercilious, vehemence.

The idea that an illiterate peasant country could produce a revolutionary people seemed utterly absurd to this "highly educated", supercilious and extremely stupid leader of the bourgeois reformists.

After many years of hostility towards art under a rigid military regime, young artists began to make themselves seen and heard with unrestrained, even supercilious, vehemence. Their opposition was especially directed towards the theoretical over-determination of minimalism and the conceptual art of the 1970s.The parallels to Heftige Malerei in Germany are clearly apparent, even though figurative painting was less prominent, and abstraction continued.