condescend

"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

“Undoubtedly,” replied Darcy, to whom this remark was chiefly addressed, “there is meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.”

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

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

What he would do? or what would be the judgment of the law, suppose a certain case should arise?—are questions he never condescends to answer.

From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by Holyoake, George Jacob

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

Lin felt condescended to, that they treated her like a child.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge

Obama endeared himself to voters, especially younger ones, by coming off as the cool college professor who manages to sound erudite without being condescending.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026

Senior US official Dan Negrea said the US delegation would continue to make similar stands until France "renounces their condescending and disrespectful rhetoric".

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

He’s condescending to almost everyone except his church friends.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 6, 2026

WSJ: So it doesn’t matter if humans who want to debunk conspiracy theories are condescending?

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026

“It’s only been a day, Isaac,” she said, vaguely condescending.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green