Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

(adjective) coolly and patronizingly haughty

Highlighted phrases

supercilious



his supercilious pose

—p.74 Eugénie Grandet (33) by Honoré de Balzac
notable
4 years ago


wherein a sitcom family—tense mom, supercilious dad, two smirking teens, and an annoying little sister—gathers in the dining room to partake of a delivered pizza.

—p.54 Part II: A Chronicle of the Bush Years (47) by J. Hoberman
notable
3 years, 11 months ago


Connell is actually drawns towards this supercilious type of person

—p.69 by Sally Rooney
uncertain
6 years, 1 month ago


The supercilious Jay Rayner

—p.129 Dinner with Schmucks (126) by The Baffler
confirm
5 years, 2 months ago


His “area of specialty,” as he called it in a supercilious tone, was wolves

—p.17 The Wamsutter Wolf (17) by Annie Proulx
notable
5 years, 2 months ago


Perhaps the superciliousness of some of my peers was related to this underlying fear.

—p.88 Base Culture (85) missing author
notable
5 years, 3 months ago