superioridad-1
patronisation [patronization, -USA] ; edge ; superiority ; self-importance.
In the background has often been the need, at a time of declining financial resources, to demonstrate the relevance of the library to all sectors of society and there can sometimes be detected an element of patronization.
Internet Explorer was rated as having a slight edge at 83 per cent over Netscape Navigator at 79 per cent.
Fundamental decisions about the superiority of one retrieval technique over another are made solely on the basis of these measures.
Some people have a neurotic, exaggerated sense of self-importance and will nitpick and make a row over just everything in every shop or restaurant.
actitud de superioridad
attitude of superiority
It was the American attitude of superiority that galled them the most.
aire de superioridad
condescension
attitude of superiority
The inherent condescension of this passage will probably cause much grinding of the teeth of the county library staff members present at the meeting.
It was the American attitude of superiority that galled them the most.
complejo de superioridad
superiority complex
In the character of Emma, Austen combines a superiority complex with self-deception to depict a malfunctioning social hierarchy.
con pretensiones de superioridad moral
self-righteous
He was described as 'a self-important, self-righteous blowhard, puffing his filthy pipe, patches on the elbows of his well-worn tweed jacket, decked out in the cliche costume of the shabby liberal icon'.
con una actitud de superioridad
snooty [snootier -comp., snootiest -sup.]
Researchers expect librarians to be factually knowledgeable, welcoming, helpful and supportive rather than 'weird', 'snooty' or 'easily antagonized'.
darse aires de superioridad
get + uppity
get + uppish
People need to accept that they are low lifes and stop getting uppity when someone else makes a joke they can't understand.
The professors soon reminded their vice-chancellors if they got uppish that they were only primus inter pares.
sentido de la superioridad
sense of superiority
She comments on the attitudes of her fellow travelers, mostly people on all-inclusive package holidays, toward the local people, noting an unjustified sense of superiority on the part of the Europeans.
superioridad numérica
strength in numbers
Nowhere is the principle of strength in numbers more apparent than in the collective power of microbes.
