- present tense form of condescend (3rd person singular).
condescends
Example Sentences
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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
He condescends; she bites back: “You always smile when you insult me.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2023
"Three 'verys'. Wow," he condescends, then signals her to lay her pitch on him.
From Salon ● May 8, 2023
“She catches the details of ordinary existence in a manner that’s reminiscent of the director Mike Leigh. She never condescends, and her fluid prose is suggestive of larger and darker human themes.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2021
Voltaire says of the deluge:— 'We consider it as a miracle; first, because all the facts by which God condescends to interfere in the sacred books are so many miracles.
From The Bible: what it is by Bradlaugh, Charles
