condescend
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"When I started coaching women for the first time, I did not condescend to them," said Dorrance.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025
Don’t question the character of his backers or condescend; appeal to their interests and positive dreams.
From Seattle Times ● May 26, 2024
Leaving the ironies to us, she refuses to condescend to the character.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
Yet the paintings never gave the viewer permission to condescend to the subject matter.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2021
“He has no right to condescend to us is all I’m saying,” Alaska said, continuing her conversation with the Colonel.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
In the American psyche, it’s the Miss Millie story line from Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple,” about someone so blinded by a conception of her own virtue that it doesn’t register when she condescends.
From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2024
"Three 'verys'. Wow," he condescends, then signals her to lay her pitch on him.
From Salon ● May 8, 2023
“It’s a lovely performance, one that never condescends to play on pathos but grows in strength with each new outrage.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2019
He closes practices, condescends with the press and refuses to attend alumni functions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2019
After all this preliminary magnificence Gibbon condescends to approach his own pedigree.
From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Augustine Birrell
He was popular, but for a long time the critics condescended to him, calling him a lightweight Sunday painter and deriding him for his “matchstick” figures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Still, she never condescended to or attacked Trump’s supporters.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2024
“The consistency of the experience of going to doctor after doctor, seeking help, and being disbelieved and condescended to is really surprising to me,” Garvin said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2023
She started out as a young, introverted newbie in the Foreign Service, condescended to by autocrats and bad bosses.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2022
He failed to show up for work, and when he did, he worked listlessly, and condescended to his father’s employees.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
That line allowed the Jackson campaign to respond that Collins’ team was condescending.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2026
Clarkson alleged that an employee spoke to her in a condescending manner after revealing that a similar item would cost $15,000, comparing the encounter to the infamous shopping scene in “Pretty Woman.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
That included unpleasant exchanges in public transport, conflicts with neighbours, or condescending remarks.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Responding to a question about that at an economics conference, Bessent stated — with “a condescending smirk,” I reported at the time — “I get a feeling the American people won’t see it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
“Excuse me, but if this seems condescending, I assure you it’s not...but are you really locked to that flagpole?”
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
Vocabulary lists containing condescend
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 1–6
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