Word for today: supercilious

su•per•cil•i•ous
–adjective:
[1] haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.
[2] having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy

1. "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"
2. "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"

[3] expressive of contempt;

1. "curled his lip in a supercilious smile";
2. "spoke in a sneering jeering manner";
3. "makes many a sharp comparison but never a mean or snide one"

As in:
This article in The Independant:
Rupert Cornwell: Out of America
Barack Obama will win the forthcoming presidential election. I can report this with some confidence on the basis of my latest foray into the American heartland – both real and metaphorical.
Obama has had his troubles of late... you can't help feeling he should be farther ahead of McCain than is he is.
One reason, perhaps, is that famous Obama cool. Cool unflappability is one thing. The supercilious arrogance he is apt on occasion to display is quite another.

—Related forms:
su•per•cil•i•ous•ly, adverb
su•per•cil•i•ous•ness, noun

—Synonyms: arrogant, scornful.
—Antonyms: humble.