condescend
Example Sentences
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“He was always extremely warm and very present, there was nothing condescending in him. He never treated me like a kid. We clicked right away.”
From Los Angeles Times
While this may sound condescending today, at the time it was a broad-minded position.
It shows us that he could be down-to-earth without ever condescending to his readers.
However, his wife, the Baroness Hoover, was monstrous, rude, and condescending, and like the Earl of Maytag, she scarcely considered the Incorrigibles to be human.
From Literature
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 Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
