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
They do not marginalize or condescend to him; Pira loves them unstintingly.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 2022
Because no matter how low on the totem pole you may be or wherever you came from, there’s no need to condescend or to put other people down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2021
“And what’s happened to you? I wonder you condescend to come back to such poor society as this, I am sure I do!”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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
Hopkins, a graduate of Winchester school and Cambridge University, condescends to his neighbors in Beadle.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2023
He closes practices, condescends with the press and refuses to attend alumni functions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2019
The lock turns heavily, and Tug condescends to hold the lantern while Silas applies both hands to the key.
From The Mystery of the Locks by Edgar Watson Howe
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
And that doesn’t include the tweets from professional, blue-check-marked figures who have condescended to me and belittled my work or expertise.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 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
The Danish executives “have this condescending view of American healthcare,” a former Novo staffer said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
The video itself has been roundly seen as damaging to Miller, who comes across as bullying and condescending, and whose rage at the situation seems to be boiling just below the surface.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
“It’s pretentious indulgence and I’m making a condescending judgment that half the audience doesn’t have a clue about it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
But in a setting that demands connection, he can appear condescending or insincere.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026
He was short and slight, black-haired and black-eyed, pompous, condescending, and almost as ignorant medically as I was.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
Vocabulary lists containing condescend
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 1–6
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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