| No. | Item | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | abusive | harshly insulting |
| 2. | acerbic | sharp and biting |
| 3. | acid | sharply sarcastic |
| 4. | acidulous | slightly acid or sarcastic |
| 5. | arrogant | excessively self-important |
| 6. | authoritarian | demanding unquestioned obedience |
| 7. | autocratic | domineeringly controlling |
| 8. | babying | treating as helpless |
| 9. | barbed | hurtfully pointed |
| 10. | belittling | making others seem unimportant |
| 11. | berating | scolding harshly |
| 12. | biting | sharply critical |
| 13. | bossy | given to ordering others |
| 14. | browbeating | intimidating by scolding |
| 15. | bullying | intimidating and domineering |
| 16. | captious | faultfinding over trivial matters |
| 17. | carping | pettily critical |
| 18. | caustic | bitingly critical |
| 19. | caviling | raising petty objections |
| 20. | censorious | severely critical |
| 21. | chastising | severely criticizing |
| 22. | chiding | mildly scolding |
| 23. | classist | snobbish about social class |
| 24. | contemptuous | showing strong disrespect |
| 25. | cutting | sharply hurtful |
| 26. | demeaning | lowering another’s dignity |
| 27. | deprecating | expressing disapproval or belittlement |
| 28. | depreciatory | lowering value or respect |
| 29. | derisive | showing ridicule or contempt |
| 30. | derogatory | showing a critical low opinion |
| 31. | dictatorial | domineering and absolute |
| 32. | disdainful | showing contemptuous dislike |
| 33. | dismissive | treating as unworthy |
| 34. | disparaging | expressing low opinion |
| 35. | disparagingly superior | belittling from above |
| 36. | disrespectful | lacking proper respect |
| 37. | domineering | overly controlling |
| 38. | elitist | favoring a superior group |
| 39. | faultfinding | habitually critical |
| 40. | haughty | proudly disdainful |
| 41. | hectoring | bullying with words |
| 42. | high-and-mighty | arrogantly self-important |
| 43. | high-handed | arrogantly overbearing |
| 44. | highfalutin | pompous or pretentious |
| 45. | holier-than-thou | morally self-righteous |
| 46. | humiliating | making someone feel ashamed |
| 47. | hypercritical | excessively critical |
| 48. | imperious | arrogantly commanding |
| 49. | infantilizing | treating adults like children |
| 50. | insulting | offensive and disrespectful |
| 51. | judgmental | quickly critical of others |
| 52. | lecturing | giving unwanted instruction |
| 53. | loftily kind | kind from assumed superiority |
| 54. | loftily polite | polite from above |
| 55. | lofty | haughtily superior |
| 56. | looking down on | regarding as inferior |
| 57. | looking down upon | viewing as beneath oneself |
| 58. | lordly | arrogantly superior |
| 59. | magisterial | authoritative and superior |
| 60. | maternalistic | motherly but controlling |
| 61. | mocking | ridiculing or derisive |
| 62. | moralistic | judgmentally moralizing |
| 63. | moralizing | giving unwanted moral judgments |
| 64. | nitpicking | pettily faultfinding |
| 65. | offensive | causing insult or hurt |
| 66. | opprobrious | scornfully abusive |
| 67. | overbearing | domineering and arrogant |
| 68. | overexplaining | explaining unnecessarily fully |
| 69. | patriarchal | paternally controlling |
| 70. | patrician | aristocratically superior |
| 71. | patronizing | treating others as inferior |
| 72. | pedantic | overly concerned with correctness |
| 73. | pejorative | expressing contempt or disapproval |
| 74. | peremptory | commanding without discussion |
| 75. | pompous | self-important and grand |
| 76. | preachy | annoyingly moralizing |
| 77. | presumptuous | overconfidently forward |
| 78. | priggish | self-righteously proper |
| 79. | rebuking | expressing sharp disapproval |
| 80. | reproving | expressing disapproval |
| 81. | sanctimonious | falsely pious and superior |
| 82. | scornful | full of contempt |
| 83. | self-important | thinking oneself very important |
| 84. | self-righteous | morally smug and superior |
| 85. | slighting | showing disrespectful disregard |
| 86. | smug | self-satisfiedly superior |
| 87. | sneering | mockingly contemptuous |
| 88. | snobbily superior | superior in a snobbish way |
| 89. | snobbish | showing social superiority |
| 90. | snooty | snobbishly superior |
| 91. | stuck-up | snobbishly conceited |
| 92. | supercilious | haughtily contemptuous |
| 93. | superior | acting better than others |
| 94. | talking down | speaking as to an inferior |
| 95. | taunting | mocking provocatively |
| 96. | toffee-nosed | snobbish and superior |
| 97. | unctuous | oily and insincerely earnest |
| 98. | upbraiding | criticizing severely |
| 99. | uppity | presumptuously self-important |
| 100. | vituperative | bitterly abusive |