Superioridad in english
Superiority
pronunciation: supɪriɔrɪti part of speech: noun
pronunciation: supɪriɔrɪti part of speech: noun
In gestures
superioridad1 = patronisation [patronization, -USA] ; edge ; superiority ; self-importance.
Example: 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.Example: Internet Explorer was rated as having a slight edge at 83 per cent over Netscape Navigator at 79 per cent.Example: Fundamental decisions about the superiority of one retrieval technique over another are made solely on the basis of these measures.Example: 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.more:
» actitud de superioridad = attitude of superiority .
Example: It was the American attitude of superiority that galled them the most.» aire de superioridad = condescension ; attitude of superiority .
Example: The inherent condescension of this passage will probably cause much grinding of the teeth of the county library staff members present at the meeting. Example: It was the American attitude of superiority that galled them the most.» aires de superioridad = airs and graces .
Example: How dare you, a woman who is little more than a peasant by birth herself, don your airs and graces and presume to tell me what I should or shouldn't do = Cómo te atreves, una mujer que es poco más que una campesina de nacimiento, asumir aires de superioridad y tener la osadía de decirme lo que debo o no hacer.» complejo de superioridad = superiority complex .
Example: In the character of Emma, Austen combines a superiority complex with self-deception to depict a malfunctioning social hierarchy.» con aire(s) de superioridad = condescending ; patronising [patronizing, -USA] ; haughty [haughtier -comp., haughtiest -sup.] ; haughtily ; condescendingly ; supercilious ; superciliously ; patronisingly [patronizingly, -USA] .
Example: Now, he's a sore loser and talks to all of us in a threatening, condescending manner = Él es un mal perdedor y nos habla a todos nosotros en un tono amenazador y condescendiente. Example: There has been no change in all the years since, except that librarians have become more understanding and less patronising. Example: The only blot on his escutcheon is, that after his great success he grew to be haughty and insolent in his demands. Example: The whole place pulsates with drama: an aristocratic extravagance with giant statues glowering haughtily from its domed roof. Example: Watching these white male lawyers talk down so condescendingly to is painful. Example: A commenter took me to task for being supercilious and said it was inconsistent with my religion. Example: Tiff smiled a little superciliously intimating that he had a plan all figured out already. Example: It was a while before it dawned on me that I was myself a migrant, displaying all the characteristics I so patronisingly observed in others.» con pretensiones de superioridad moral = self-righteous .
Example: 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.] .
Example: 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 .
Example: People need to accept that they are low lifes and stop getting uppity when someone else makes a joke they can't understand. Example: The professors soon reminded their vice-chancellors if they got uppish that they were only primus inter pares.» hablar con aire(s) de superioridad a = talk down to .
Example: Watching these white male lawyers talk down so condescendingly to her is painful.» sentido de la superioridad = sense of superiority .
Example: 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.» sonrisa de superioridad = fish-eating grin .
Example: Strolling from a hand crafted log cabin to the jet boat I had a fish-eating grin.» superioridad numérica = strength in numbers .
Example: Nowhere is the principle of strength in numbers more apparent than in the collective power of microbes.» tratar con aire(s) de superioridad = condescend .
Example: The south London 'white trash' it portrays are as marginalized in their council flats as any poor sharecroppers, but the novel neither condescends toward them nor sentimentalizes their plight.superioridad2 = authority.
Example: One of the great virtues of networking is that it democratizes access to information and access to authority.more:
» superioridad, la = upper hand, the .
Example: Someone with the 'upper hand' has the final say over a situation.