condescension
Example Sentences
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Though I love these scores, I wouldn’t go that far: Condescension endures toward Bernstein’s unabashedly theatrical symphonies.
From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2017
There are Women Fools to a strange degree; but have you, Cousin, seen any Object so amiable to merit that ridiculous Condescension.
From The Fine Lady's Airs (1709) by Baker, Thomas, fl. 1700-1709
Every one who has read anything during the last fifteen years or so, must remember that bright Atlantic essay on “A Certain Condescension in Foreigners.”
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
Upon, such a Condescension, I would likewise demonstrate to you, how you and I might assist and be useful to one another, as Authors.
From A Letter to Dion by Viner, Jacob
And, for good Nature and Condescension, there was not his Fellow.
From Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles by Various
Vocabulary lists containing condescension
A Christmas Carol
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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