The corpus record

ὑπεροπτικός

uperoptikos

contemptuous, disdainful

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Where it lives

On the Accession of Alexander 1 · 5.6/10k
To Demonicus 1 · 3.46/10k
Panathenaicus 1 · 0.63/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3 · 0.28/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant

ὑπεροπτικός · hyperoptikos — LSJ

contemptuous, disdainful

contemptuous, disdainful, Isoc. 1.30, 12.241, Luc. Nigr. 1, etc.; ἠπείλησεν ὑπεροπτικά Id. DDeor. 1[21].1; τὸ -ώτατον D. 17.26. Adv. -κῶς X. HG 7.1.18, Str. 8.6.23: Comp. -ώτερον Plb. 5.46.6: Sup. -ώτατα D.C. 49.7.

c. gen., ἀδικία ἕξις ὑ. νόμων Pl. Def. 416a.

In the wild

ὑπεροπτικώτατον · hyperoptikōtaton Demosthenes, On the Accession of Alexander 26 (DIORISIS sentence 63)
ὑπεροπτικὸν · hyperoptikon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.5 (DIORISIS sentence 1267)
ὑπεροπτικὴν · hyperoptikēn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.8 (DIORISIS sentence 1586)
ὑπεροπτικὸς · hyperoptikos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.5 (DIORISIS sentence 7885)
ὑπεροπτικοὺς · hyperoptikous Isocrates, Panathenaicus 241 (DIORISIS sentence 423)
ὑπεροπτικῶν · hyperoptikōn Isocrates, To Demonicus 30 (DIORISIS sentence 115)

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